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UGANDA: COURT MAINTAINS DEATH SENTENCE

21 January 2011 :

the Ugandan Court of Appeal, led by Deputy Chief Justice, Alice Mpagi Bahegeine, upheld the death sentence of Alice Twikiriza for murdering her step daughter, Immaculate Mahura, 5, by drowning her in River Mpanga in 2001. She was sentenced by Justice Lamech Mukasa in the Fort Portal high court on February 11, 2005.
 
(Sources: UGPulse.com, 20/01/2011)

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Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.