Amnesty International asked Uganda to drop the death penalty.

Amnesty International asked Uganda to drop the death penalty. The body's French arm wrote to President Yoweri Museveni with at least 650 signatures of French Nationals from Marseilles, Southern France, expressing their concern about Uganda's continued imposition of the death penalty.
The petition came at a time when at least 417 prisoners on the death row in Uganda's maximum-security prisons were petitioning the Constitutional Court to scrap the death penalty.
The group President, Mr Bruno Canivenc, said Uganda has been party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) since 1987.
The international human rights instrument stipulates that every human being has the inherent right to life and it shall be protected by law. It says no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life.
"However, I am deeply concerned that the death sentence is still imposed in Uganda, which had at least 500 people on death row by July 2004. Elsewhere in the world, there is a positive trend towards the abolition of the death penalty," Canivenc said. "Scientific studies have consistently failed to find convincing evidence that the death penalty deters crime more effectively than other punishments," Canivenc said.