A Critique Analysis of the Law on Capital Offences and Their Punishments as A Violation of Human Rights (A Case Study of Uganda

RUKUNDO ALLODY 51 PAGES (13101 WORDS) Law Dissertation

CHAPTER ONE

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

Death penalty, as a form of capital punishment is the legal infliction of death as penalty for a violation of criminal law .it involves severe trauma and injury on a body to the point where life is extinguished 1 The death penalty is controversial form of punishment throughout the world, which it has been condemned and abolished in many states as a violation of human rights, however in many countries including Uganda it's still form of punishment.