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.
Latest news
- JANUARY 20, 2011UgandaDEATH PENALTY
UGANDA: COURT MAINTAINS DEATH SENTENCE
the Ugandan Court of Appeal, led by Deputy Chief Justice, Alice Mpagi Bahegeine
- JANUARY 3, 2011UgandaDEATH PENALTY
UGANDA: 12 CHILDREN ON DEATH ROW RELEASED
Ugandan High court judge Eldad Mwangusya ordered the release of 12 people who were arrested as juveniles and detained for 20 years following the failure of the justice minister to sentence them.
- JANUARY 1, 2011UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Uganda's penal code provides for 15 capital offences
Uganda's penal code provides for 15 capital offences
- DECEMBER 7, 2010UgandaDEATH PENALTY
UGANDA: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
at a court in Tororo district, Uganda, Justice Stephen Musota sentenced Constance Oguti, Sande Hamprey Okite and Patrick Sanya to death for killing Bita Wajala on August 12, 2008, in Sibodobui village in Busia.
- DECEMBER 3, 2010UgandaDEATH PENALTY
UGANDA SOLDIER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR WIFE’S MURDER
in Uganda, a Court Martial chaired by Col. Mark Kodili and sitting at Burondo I trading centre in Bundibugyo district sentenced UPDF soldier Cpl. Charles Ojik to death for killing his wife on October 1.
- NOVEMBER 28, 2010UgandaDEATH PENALTY
UGANDA: FORMER DPC AURIEN SENTENCED TO DEATH
former Mukono District Police commander James Aurien...
- NOVEMBER 10, 2010UgandaDEATH PENALTY
UGANDA: MUKONO MEN TO FACE DEATH SENTENCE
the Ugandan Court of Appeal sustained the death sentence against Mukono men Andrew Kayondo and Emmanuel Sennyomo for murdering Dennis Tumwine because they suspected he had stolen a blanket.
- OCTOBER 3, 2010UgandaDEATH PENALTY
UGANDA: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER
Selvano Baguma, 72, was sentenced to death for fatally beating carpenter Ernest Balinda at Nyakatooke village in Bugaaki sub-county in Uganda's Kyenjojo district in 2008 because he burnt his eucalyptus trees.
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2010UgandaDEATH PENALTY
UGANDA: SOLDIER TO HANG FOR KILLING COLLEAGUES
in Uganda, Lt. Col. Eugene Sebugwawo of the UPDF 3rd Division Court Martial sentenced
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2010UgandaDEATH PENALTY
UGANDA: COURT MARTIAL SENTENCES SOLDIER’S WIFE TO DEATH
soldier’s wife Judith Koryang was sentenced to death by Lt Col. Eugine Ssebugwawo of the UPDF 3rd Division Court Martial in Moroto, Uganda, for killing her husband Pte. Nelson Okello, on May 1, 2009.
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2010UgandaDEATH PENALTY
UGANDA: 167 MOVED FROM DEATH ROW TO LIFE SENTENCE
at least 167 inmates on death row have had their sentences reduced
SEPTEMBER 13, 2010UgandaDEATH PENALTYUGANDA: COURT SENDS MAN TO GALLOWS
Ugandan High Court Justice Benjamin Kabiito sentenced casual labourer Peter
SEPTEMBER 8, 2010UgandaDEATH PENALTYUGANDA: COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH FOR LAKARA MURDER
Chuba Lochieng, 20, was sentenced to death in Uganda by court chairman Lt. Col. Eugene
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2010UgandaDEATH PENALTY
UGANDA: JUDGES UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE
three judges of the Ugandan Court of Appeal, led by Justice George Engwau, upheld
- AUGUST 13, 2010UgandaDEATH PENALTY
UGANDA: TWENTY UGANDANS AWAIT DEATH IN CHINA OVER DRUGS
the number of Ugandans sentenced to death in China for trafficking illegal drugs has risen to 20, Ambassador Charles Madibo Wagidoso said.
JUNE 21, 2010UgandaDEATH PENALTYUGANDA: MOTHER, SON TO BE HANGED FOR MURDER
Justice John Bosco Katutsihe of the Ugandan High Court, sitting in Rukungiri district,
- JUNE 11, 2010UgandaDEATH PENALTY
UGANDA: COURT MARTIAL SENTENCES SOLDIER TO DEATH
in Uganda, Lt. Col. Eugene Ssebugwawo, who chaired the
- MAY 19, 2010UgandaDEATH PENALTY
UGANDA: COURT DROPS DEATH SENTENCE AGAINST FATHER, SON
the Ugandan Court of Appeal dropped the death sentences issued in 2003 by the Masaka High Court against Lawrence Ndawula and his son, Isa Golola, for killing neighbour Steven Mwanje.
- MAY 7, 2010UgandaDEATH PENALTY
TWO YOUTHS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN UGANDA
Justice Caroline Atima Okello of the High Court, sitting in Apac district, Uganda, sentenced Moses Otim, 23, to death for the armed robbery and murder of Alex Ongom on October, 1, 2005.
- APRIL 25, 2010UgandaDEATH PENALTY
UGANDA: MAN TO HANG FOR KILLING MOTHER
the Ugandan Court of Appeal sentenced Francis Murungi to death for murdering his mother Edrayi Kenyegano in Bushenyi on February 7, 2000, using a machete.
- MARCH 29, 2010UgandaDEATH PENALTY
UGANDA: ARINAITWE APPEALS AGAINST DEATH SENTENCE
Richard Arinaitwe appealed against the death sentence handed down by the Ugandan High Court in December, 2003, as he was tried without legal representation.
- MARCH 2, 2010UgandaDEATH PENALTY
UGANDA: WOMAN ACQUITTED OF MURDER, DEATH SENTENCE
Justices Bahigeine, Twinomujuni and Byamugisha of the Ugandan Court of Appeal dismissed a death sentence against Joan Tumuhairwe, 28, from Kakoni village in Kiruhura district, for murdering her husband Edgar Mwijukye.
MARCH 1, 2010UgandaDEATH PENALTYUGANDA: GAY BILL CRITICS DELIVER ONLINE PETITION
Campaigners opposing Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill have taken an online petition to parliament
- FEBRUARY 22, 2010UgandaDEATH PENALTY
UGANDA: EX-SOLDIER SENTENCED TO DEATH
the UPDF 5th division court martial, sitting in Laguti sub-county in Pader district, Uganda, sentenced ex-soldier Africano Abono Lino to death.
- FEBRUARY 4, 2010UgandaDEATH PENALTY
USA: OBAMA DENOUNCES ANTI-GAY BILL IN UGANDA AS 'ODIOUS'
President Barack Obama denounced as "odious" a proposed anti-gay law in Uganda that calls for the
- FEBRUARY 2, 2010UgandaDEATH PENALTY
UGANDA: DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED
in Uganda, Patrick Bwenge’s death sentence was reduced to two years imprisonment. He was convicted of murdering his wife on May 5, 1995.
- JANUARY 21, 2010UgandaDEATH PENALTY
UGANDA SHELVES PLAN TO GIVE DEATH PENALTY TO HIV-POSITIVE PEOPLE CONVICTED OF GAY SEX
Uganda president Yoweri Museveni said that his government...
- JANUARY 21, 2010UgandaDEATH PENALTY
UGANDA PRESIDENT PARDONS TOP AMIN LIEUTENANT
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni pardoned one of former leader Idi Amin Dada's top lieutenants who had been on death row since 1987.
- JANUARY 1, 2010UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Uganda's penal code provides for 15 capital offences
Uganda's penal code provides for 15 capital offences
- DECEMBER 28, 2009UgandaDEATH PENALTY
UGANDA: TWO TO HANG FOR MURDER OF SUSPECTED WITCH
two men were sentenced to hang by deputy Chief Justice Laetitia Mukasa-Kikonyogo of the Ugandan Court of Appeal for killing an old woman in Bushenyi District on suspicion that she was bewitching them.