Kenya
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- republic
- CONSTITUTION
- the 1963 constitution was replaced by a new one on August 27, 2010
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- it is based on English, Islamic, and customary law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- National Assembly (although the new 2010 constitution introduced a bicameral Parliament consisting of the Senate (94 members) and the National Assembly (290 members), in practice the system is unicameral as only the second chamber functions)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, High Court, and three subordinate courts
RELIGIONS
45% Protestant, 33% Catholic, 10% Muslim, 10% Indigenous beliefs, 2% Other
From the country
- DECEMBER 13, 2006KenyaDEATH PENALTY
KENYA. THREE SECURITY GUARDS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR VIOLENT ROBBERY
security guards Richard Maeta, Elias Shikuku Wanjala and Peter Mulati Wafula were sentenced to death for violently robbing novelist Ngugi wa Thiong’o and his wife. John Kiragu Chege, a nephew of the writer, was acquitted for lack of evidence.
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2006KenyaDEATH PENALTY
KENYA. POLICE UNIT TOPS LIST OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSERS WITH EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTIONS
the police remain the most notorious abusers of human rights in Kenya, the latest human rights accountability report said.
- AUGUST 26, 2006KenyaDEATH PENALTY
KENYA. DEATH ROW INMATES ON STRIKE
about 200 death row convicts went on a hunger strike at Kenya’s Kamiti Maximum Prison, Kenya.
- AUGUST 9, 2006KenyaDEATH PENALTY
KENYA. FARMER TO DIE FOR BRITON'S DEATH
James Karuga Kamau, a 45 year old farmer, was sentenced to death after being convicted of murdering a teacher in Nairobi and dumping her body in a river.
- AUGUST 8, 2006KenyaDEATH PENALTY
"When we speak to them (death row prisoners)...
"When we speak to them (death row prisoners)...
- MAY 12, 2006KenyaDEATH PENALTY
KENYA. CROWD DEMANDS DEATH FOR BRITISH ARISTOCRAT OVER KILLING
hundreds of Kenyan protesters called for the death penalty against a British aristocrat accused of killing a suspected poacher, a year after he was involved in an earlier fatal shooting.
- JANUARY 1, 2006KenyaDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason and armed robbery are capital crimes.
Murder, treason and armed robbery are capital crimes.
- DECEMBER 6, 2005KenyaDEATH PENALTY
KENYA. CONDEMNED PRISONER APPEALS FOR ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY
Peter Kamau Ndung'u, a prisoner condemned to death, appealed to the Kenyan government to abolish the death penalty.
- OCTOBER 24, 2005KenyaDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason and armed robbery are capital crimes.
Murder, treason and armed robbery are capital crimes.
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2005KenyaDEATH PENALTY
KENYA. TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ROBBERY AND MURDER
a Nairobi court sentenced Godown Onyango and George Mungai to death by hanging for violently robbing a military officer and killing him.
- AUGUST 16, 2005KenyaDEATH PENALTY
KENYA. FRESH CALLS TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International rekindled calls for the abolition of the death penalty in Kenya.
- JULY 1, 2005KenyaDEATH PENALTY
KENYA. COURT FREES SEVEN DEATH ROW CONVICTS
seven death row convicts were released by the High Court for lack of evidence