Uganda’s Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty Constitutional, Overturns Ruling of Lower Court

Uganda’s Supreme Court has ruled that the country’s death penalty was constitutional, overturning a ruling made in the Constitutional Court in 2005.

Judges on the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty acted as a deterrent to murder but asked parliament to seek alternative methods for carrying out the sentence other than hanging.

According to Justice Egonda-Ntende, “hanging as a method of execution as it is carried out in Uganda is a cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment.”

The Court also ruled that prisoners on death row should not be held longer than three years after their sentence.

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