Execution notices are pinned to the prison gate once...

Execution notices are pinned to the prison gate once issued, then the condemned prisoner is informed and asked to make a will before being taken to the gallows on the scheduled day.
Prison officers have described the procedure as a very traumatic experience even for the guards themselves, and in their recommendations to the Constitutional Review Commission in February 2003, requested that the death penalty be abolished and replaced with life imprisonment.
Under laws in force in Uganda in 2003, a life sentence is 20 years and the inmates serve 16 years as a third of their term is usually subject to remission. The Prisons Department requested a change in the law so that life terms mean that convicts remain in prison until their death.