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
- JUNE 6, 2005KenyaDEATH PENALTY
KENYA. GOVERNMENT PLANS COMMUTING DEATH PENALTIES TO LIFE, MINISTER
the Kenyan government planned to commute death sentences to life in prison, Kiraitu Murungi, the country's justice and constitutional affairs minister, announced.
- MAY 8, 2005KenyaDEATH PENALTY
KENYA. MUGGERS ELIGIBLE FOR DEATH PENALTY
it was reported that muggers in Kenya would be charged with robbery with violence, a crime that carried a mandatory death sentence.
- APRIL 27, 2005KenyaDEATH PENALTY
KENYA. MPS BACK TOUGH NEW PENALTIES FOR RAPISTS
rapists should be castrated, stoned to death or face the firing squad, MPs were told.
- APRIL 25, 2005KenyaDEATH PENALTY
KENYA. GOVERNMENT FREES UGANDANS ON DEATH ROW
the Kenyan government released four Ugandans who had been on death row for 10 years in Kenya on allegations they were rebels.
- APRIL 20, 2005KenyaDEATH PENALTY
Kenya abstained from the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
Kenya abstained from the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
- MARCH 1, 2005KenyaDEATH PENALTY
KENYA. MAN WHO KILLED HIV POSITIVE GRANDSON SENTENCED TO DEATH
Joseph Wambirwa Mwathi, 70, was sentenced to death in Kenya for killing his grandson on suspicion that the child was HIV positive.
- FEBRUARY 22, 2005KenyaDEATH PENALTY
death-row convicts at the Kamiti Maximum Prison, Kenya...
death-row convicts at the Kamiti Maximum Prison, Kenya...
- JANUARY 25, 2005KenyaDEATH PENALTY
Kenyan national Lolwakenju Lengironi was sentenced to death
Kenyan national Lolwakenju Lengironi was sentenced to death
- OCTOBER 27, 2004KenyaDEATH PENALTY
Alleged beatings and worsening conditions have claimed...
Alleged beatings and worsening conditions have claimed the lives of at least 56 inmates in Meru prison in eastern Kenya since January, the Medico-Legal Unit (IMLU), a non-governmental watchdog, said
- OCTOBER 6, 2004KenyaDEATH PENALTY
It was revealed in a report submitted by the Kenyan...
It was revealed in a report submitted by the Kenyan government to the United Nation's Human Rights Committee that there are 1,900 prisoners on death row in the country, 200 of which had exhausted their attempts to have the sentence commuted to life
- AUGUST 9, 2004KenyaDEATH PENALTY
Ntonyiri MP Maoka Maore asked the police...
Ntonyiri MP Maoka Maore asked the police...
- AUGUST 6, 2004KenyaDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that more than 100 death row convicts...
It was reported that more than 100 death row convicts at the Kamiti Maximum Prison in Kenya were back on the streets following a landmark court ruling that they had been convicted by officers below the rank stipulated by the law