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
- NOVEMBER 21, 2004UgandaDEATH PENALTY
the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (FHRI) continued to advocate the abolition of the death penalty
the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (FHRI) continued to advocate the abolition of the death penalty
- OCTOBER 30, 2004UgandaDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that former Ugandan internal affairs...
It was reported that former Ugandan internal affairs minister Chris Rwakasisi, on death row in Luzira Prison, had been moved from the condemned section to the general prison, Boma
- OCTOBER 10, 2004UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Uganda's Attorney General has opposed the constitutional...
Uganda's Attorney General has opposed the constitutional petition signed by 417 death row inmates against the death penalty, reported New Vision
- OCTOBER 5, 2004UgandaDEATH PENALTY
A seminar analysing the investigations of the International...
A seminar analysing the investigations of the International Criminal Court (ICC) into the conflict in northern Uganda, heard that LRA rebel leader, Joseph Kony and his allies would never be given a death sentence
- JUNE 4, 2004UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Paul Kutosi , a Ugandan who won an appeal against a...
Paul Kutosi , a Ugandan who won an appeal against a death sentence in Kenya petitioned a human rights body seeking compensation
- JUNE 4, 2004UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The Ugandan High Court sentenced to death Charles Wafula,...
The Ugandan High Court sentenced to death Charles Wafula, Stephen Lulakala and Godfrey Namanda after finding them guilty of murdering a resident of Nalyamagonja, in the Wakiso district
- MAY 21, 2004UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The death of the Attorney General, Francis Ayume, halted...
The death of the Attorney General, Francis Ayume, halted the hearing of a petition in which 417 condemned prisoners were challenging the death penalty
- MAY 3, 2004UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The Ugandan Ministry of Justice and Constitutional...
The Ugandan Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs stated that the death penalty would only be replaced with life imprisonment for those who defiled girls between 10 to 17 years, those found guilty of defiling girls under nine years of age would s
- APRIL 30, 2004UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The Ugandan government would soon replace death sentences...
The Ugandan government would soon replace death sentences on capital offences with long jail terms, the minister of justice and constitutional affairs, Janat Mukwaya said
- APRIL 21, 2004UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Uganda voted against the resolution on the death penalty...
Uganda voted against the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 19, 2004UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Ugandan Police chief, Major General Katumba Wamala...
Ugandan Police chief, Major General Katumba Wamala urged for tightening of the law on rape and defilement
- APRIL 11, 2004UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Uganda's penal code provides for 15 capital offences:
Uganda's penal code provides for 15 capital offences:
- MARCH 31, 2004UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (UHRI) accused...
The Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (UHRI) accused Ugandan security forces of carrying out extra-judicial killings especially on detained persons and during the forceful disarmament of the Karimojong
- MARCH 31, 2004UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Uganda should stop field executions of soldiers tried...
Uganda should stop field executions of soldiers tried under martial law until their appeals have been heard, the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights said
- FEBRUARY 20, 2004UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The Ugandan High Court sentenced Samson Iga, 23, Muhamed...
The Ugandan High Court sentenced Samson Iga, 23, Muhamed Lukabwe, 29 and Siraji Bisaso, 26, to death for robbery
- FEBRUARY 13, 2004UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The High Court in Lira, Uganda, sentenced Tonny Oguna,...
The High Court in Lira, Uganda, sentenced Tonny Oguna, Joel Ogwang and Lawrence Otyek to death after finding them guilty of robbing a man at gunpoint in Alito in 2001
- DECEMBER 31, 2003UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Four hundred inmates are on the death row in Luzira...
Four hundred inmates are on the death row in Luzira Prisons, Uganda, Henry Tugume, the officer-in-charge of the prison, said
- DECEMBER 23, 2003UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International wrote to Ugandan President Museveni...
Amnesty International wrote to Ugandan President Museveni urging him to abolish the death penalty
- DECEMBER 19, 2003UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Richard Arinaitwe was convicted and sentenced to death...
Richard Arinaitwe was convicted and sentenced to death by the high court of Uganda for the murder of an American woman, Maria Cecilia Goetz
- NOVEMBER 3, 2003UgandaDEATH PENALTY
"No human being has power over the life of another
"No human being has power over the life of another
- OCTOBER 10, 2003UgandaDEATH PENALTY
According to Ugandan Prison authorities, inmates on...
According to Ugandan Prison authorities, inmates on death row numbered more than 400
- OCTOBER 3, 2003UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Ugandan security agents...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Ugandan security agents of carrying out the extra-judicial killing of four men they detained in August 2003, a charge denied by the military
- SEPTEMBER 30, 2003UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The Ugandan Attorney General replied to the constitutional...
The Ugandan Attorney General replied to the constitutional petition against the death penalty, saying the petitioners' right to life was not absolute
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2003UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Corporal Pimundu Gimaro of the Ugandan Military Police...
Corporal Pimundu Gimaro of the Ugandan Military Police was sentenced to death by the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) field court martial for cowardice and failure to carry out duties
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2003UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Three policemen convicted of killing three prominent...
Three policemen convicted of killing three prominent businessmen in Jinja, on suspicion that they were armed robbers, were sentenced to death by the High court
- AUGUST 29, 2003UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Herbert Bwangalo, 34, Jackson Kuyoka, 28, and Charles...
Herbert Bwangalo, 34, Jackson Kuyoka, 28, and Charles Lule, 29, were sentenced to death by a court in Uganda for killing Benon Mmaali on suspicion that he was a thief
- AUGUST 19, 2003UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The High Court in Masaka, Uganda, presided over by...
The High Court in Masaka, Uganda, presided over by Justice Elidad Mwangusya, sentenced Rogers Lutalemwa to death for killing his two-year-old son on July 27, 2003
- JULY 22, 2003UgandaDEATH PENALTY
President Yoweri Museveni said the death penalty must...
President Yoweri Museveni said the death penalty must remain as a deterrent against indiscriminate killings
- JULY 14, 2003UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The head of the Tabliq muslim sect, Sheikh Sulaiman...
The head of the Tabliq muslim sect, Sheikh Sulaiman Kakeeto, said he was opposed to the appeal by condemned inmates in Uganda to abolish the death penalty
- JUNE 30, 2003UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The Ugandan Commissioner of Prisons, Joseph Etima,...
The Ugandan Commissioner of Prisons, Joseph Etima, appealed to the government to abolish the death penalty