Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni

UGANDA. PRESIDENT MUSEVENI SUPPORTS DEATH PENALTY

February 23, 2007: “I am a strong believer in the death penalty”, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said at the Forum on Justice and Human Rights in Uganda. “I've heard that in some places in Europe, they forgive a deliberate killer. But how do you for instance control the Army? (In Uganda) soldiers are no longer killing people, because we execute whoever kills another. It will take a long time for someone to convince me," Museveni said.
Museveni stated he supported capital punishment because it saved the lives of the victims of capital offences such as rape, defilement and extra-judicial killings.
He made the comments at the end of the Forum on Justice and Human Rights at Speke Resort Munyonyo, a Kampala suburb. The event was organised by Restore International, an American-based NGO, and Uganda's Judicial Training Institute.
Museveni said that HIV carriers who deliberately infect others should be charged with murder. “People who infect others deliberately are killers - they are murders,” Museveni said during the Forum. “I would treat harshly someone who gets involved with another knowing that he or she has HIV. We clearly need to be tough on this.” (Sources: The Monitor, 24/02/2007)