Table of Contents
Declaration ....................................................................................................................................... i
Approval .......................................................................................................................................... ii
Dedication ....................................................................................................................................... iii
Acknowledgement .......................................................................................................................... iv
LIST OF CASES .............................................................................................................................. v
LIST OF ACRONYMS .................................................................................................................. vi
STATUTES .................................................................................................................................... vii
INTERNATIONAL LEGAL INSTRUMENTS ........................................................................... viii
ABSTRACT .................................................................................................................................... ix
CHAPTER ONE ............................................................................................................................. 1
1.1 INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE DEATH PENALTY IN
UGANDA ....................................................................................................................................... l
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM ........................................................................................ 2
1.3 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ...................................................................................................... 2
1.4 HYPOTHESIS .......................................................................................................................... 3
1.5 JUSTIFICATION OF THE STUDY ........................................................................................ 3
1.6 LITERATURE REVIEW ......................................................................................................... 4
CHAPTER TWO ............................................................................................................................ 6
ANALYSIS OF THE LAW GOVERNING THE DEATH PENALTY IN UGANDA ................. 6
2.11NTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................... 6
2.2 THE PENAL CODE ................................................................................................................. 7
2.3 THE ROLE OF THE STATE ................................................................................................... 8
2.4 THE NATIONAL RESISTANCE ARMY STATUTE 1992 ................................................... 9
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2.5 FORMS IN WHICH DEATH PENALTY IS ADMINISTERED IN UGANDA .................. 10
CHAPTER THREE ...................................................................................................................... 11
DEATH PENALTY: TO BE OR NOT TO BE? .......................................................................... 11
3.1 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................. 11
3.2 ARGUMENTS FOR DEATH PENALTY ............................................................................. 11
3.3 DEATH PENALTY IS AN UNJUSTIFIED RETRIBUTION ............................................... 15
3.4 CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IS NOT A DETERRENT ........................................................... 18
3.5 DEATH PENALTY AS A VIOLATION OF THE PROHIBITION AGAINST TORTURE,
CRUEL, DEGRADING AND INHUMAN OF PUNISHMENT ................................................. 21
3.6 DEATH PENALTY IS A BARBARIC PRACTICE .............................................................. 23
3.7 THE DEATH SENTENCE IS IRREVERSIBLE ................................................................... 25
3.8 DEATH PENALTY IS AN INSTRUMENT OF POLITICAL REPRESSION ..................... 26
3.9 THE POOR AND THE DEFENCELESS ARE THE WORST VICTIMS OF THE DEATH
PENALTY .................................................................................................................................... 28
3.10 THE CHANGE OF HEART OF A PRISONER .................................................................. 31
3.11 CAPITAL PUNISHMENT COSTS MORE THAN INCARCERATION ........................... 35
CHAPTER FOUR ......................................................................................................................... 36
DEATH PENALTY IN LIGHT OF RIGHT TO LIFE UNDER ARTICLE 22(1) OF THE
CONSTITUTION ......................................................................................................................... 36
4.1 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................. 36
4.2 THE GENESIS OF THE LAW OF DEATH PENALTY ...................................................... 37
4.3 THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF DEATH PENALTY ....................................................... 39
4.4 COMPARATIVE OF DEATH PENALTY IN SOUTH AFRICA. NIGERIA AND KENYA
TO THAT OF UGANDA ............................................................................................................. 47
CHAPTER FIVE .......................................................................................................................... 55
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CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS ......................................................................... 55
5.1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................. 55
5.2 CONCLUSION ....................................................................................................................... 55
5.2 RECOMMENDATIONS ........................................................................................................ 56
BIBLIOGRAPHY ......................................................................................................................... 57
BOOKS ......................................................................................................................................... 57
ABSTRACT
The study is aimed at reviewing Death penalty and its implications on the right to life in Uganda. The researcher used questionnaires, interviews, books, statutes, international instruments news papers and Wikipedia. The study has been favored by a number of factors and the main objectives being : I. To establish whether Death penalty violates the right to life 2. To establish whether there are other means of punishment other than death penalty 3. To establish whether or not death penalty as a capital punishment when given can prevent other criminals from committing crime Due to the above so many arguments for and against death penalty have come up. Some of the arguments for, with the threat of death penalty, the rate of murder decreases, crime rate increases with the abolition of death penalty, since most people fear death, they will think before they act, death penalty saves lives that is repeat murders are eliminated, others believe in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth and those against it have this to say that death penalty are a violation of human rights because the victim is tortured, death penalty is an instrument of political repression, its irreversible, the defenseless and poor are victims. Recommendations: I) The government emulate the international countries in abolishing death penalty 2) To turn the convicts into economic assets through serious work and not waste resources in buying heavy and expensive machinery. 3) The state to sensitize the public where it feels the death penalty is of proper interest like it has done with contraceptives and immunization 4) Increase the level of literacy for the ignorant to be able to read materials on abolition theory In conclusion there's urgent need to look through the issue of death penalty being a punishment for one that has committed a crime or even the innocent as the case has always been. thus the need to make life imprisonment the mandatory punishment replacing death penalty which will give the criminals a chance to change.
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