20 June 2005 :

the Kenyan government planned to commute death sentences to life in prison, Kiraitu Murungi, the country's justice and constitutional affairs minister, announced.
“We are in a process of commuting all death penalties to life imprisonment," Murungi told reporters.
Human rights and groups and activists in the east African nation had for many years pressed the government to scrap death sentences. "We have been pressing the government to abolish the penalty ... it is an affront and an infringement of the right to life," Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) Director Wanjiku Miano, said.