
UGANDA ABOLISHES MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY
06 September 2019
Parliament in Uganda on 21 August 2019 passed a law that abolishes the mandatory death penalty for certain crimes, amending four different laws that had earlier prescribed capital punishment, including the Anti-Terrorism Act.
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