Uganda
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist de facto
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · Uganda was a cosponsor of the amendments presented...
- News items in the archive
- 368
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Uganda is classified as Abolitionist de facto in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 368 news items on Uganda, from 1999 to today.
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- JULY 23, 1999UgandaDEATH PENALTY
On July 23, the Resident High Court Judge, Justice P
On July 23, the Resident High Court Judge, Justice P
- JUNE 18, 1999UgandaDEATH PENALTY
On June 18, the Commissioner for Prisons, Joseph Etima,...
On June 18, the Commissioner for Prisons, Joseph Etima, said he supports the scrapping of the death penalty as a punishment for capital offenses
- MAY 10, 1999UgandaDEATH PENALTY
On May 10, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs...
On May 10, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in charge of international affairs, Alfred Mubanda, received the Norwegian ambassador to Uganda, Arild Oyen, who expressed the same views on the execution of the 28 condemned prisoners as the other memb
- APRIL 28, 1999UgandaDEATH PENALTY
On April 28, 28 people were executed in Luzira prison,...
On April 28, 28 people were executed in Luzira prison, in Kampala
- APRIL 16, 1999UgandaDEATH PENALTY
On April 16, Supreme Court Justice George Kanyeihamba,...
On April 16, Supreme Court Justice George Kanyeihamba, a former attorney general, said that the death penalty was not supposed to apply to persons who defile girls over 13, and accused those who drafted the amended Penal Code of making the death penalty a
- FEBRUARY 9, 1999UgandaDEATH PENALTY
On February 9, Johnson Kamya Wavamunno, Semei Mwesigwa...
On February 9, Johnson Kamya Wavamunno, Semei Mwesigwa Bonde and Private Paddy Baryeijuka, were sentenced to death for murder and robbery of US$240,000, the property of Barclays Bank, on February 29,1996
- JANUARY 1, 1999UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Uganda was a cosponsor of the amendments presented...
Uganda was a cosponsor of the amendments presented by Egypt (A/C
- JANUARY 1, 1999UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Uganda's new Constitution, adopted 4 years ago, retains...
Uganda's new Constitution, adopted 4 years ago, retains the death sentence for crimes including treason, rape, robbery with aggravating circumstances, murder and arms trading