The director of operations in the Uganda Prisons Service,...

The director of operations in the Uganda Prisons Service, Moses Kakungulu, proposed that the execution of convicts be privatised if the death penalty cannot be abolished.
Kakungulu said the hanging of convicts brutalizes the prisons service whose role is simply to reform and rehabilitate offenders into good citizens.
Kakungulu, addressing a Uganda Law Society workshop, said the detention period for those on the death row should be short and that the executions should be done publicly to have a deterrent effect rather than confining them within Luzira prisons.
"The death penalty has been shown and proven to be a cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment with political, economic and social repercussions which outweigh its objectives," Kakungulu said.
"In case the state finds it too difficult to abolish this penalty, the prisons service should then be relieved. The duty (of executions) could be assigned to a special body or unit that has nothing to do with prisoners and whose role would not jeopardise their other objective and relationship with prisoners. This experiment was tried in China and seems to be working," he added.