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Capital punishment, more popularly known as the death penalty is the execution of a person by the state as punishment for a crime. The discussion regarding the death penalty is always a heated debate with moderates advocating for life sentences while the extremists believing that it is the ultimate punishment to anyone who deserves it.
In 2005, when this debate gained strong ground in Uganda, many people especially religious leaders supported by the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative, FHRI, strongly advocated for the death penalty to be abolished. Their cause was greatly supported by Uganda's department of prisons which said that hangings traumatize wardens.
Often times the death penalty proponents always come out victorious. They happen to be more in number, a situation that points out that there is little mercy in this world. President Museveni is also quoted saying then, “I hear some people saying that the death sentence is inhuman. Very sorry. We shall shoot anybody who kills a human being"
The BBC ran the story of abolishing the death penalty in 2005, and 6 out of the ten respondents were against that decision. Definitely, most of us still believe in the law of retaliation as the ultimate justice served!
If the Supreme court rules in support of abolishing the death penalty, it would be a pleasant gift to the over 900 death row inmates constantly living a hopeless life whose sentences would then be reduced to life imprisonment. Less of that would only show the inhumane side of the Ugandan judiciary.
