Capital punishment in Uganda
Legal penalty
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Uganda. It was last executed in 2005. The country is considered a "retentionist" state with regard to capital punishment, due to absence of "an established practice or policy against carrying out executions."[1]
In 2019, the Parliament of Uganda abolished the mandatory death penalty.[2]
In 2023, the Parliament of Uganda passed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2023, which among other restrictions against LGBT people, prescribes the death penalty for 'aggravated homosexuality.'[3]
References
- ^ "Abolitionist and retentionist countries (as of July 2018)". Amnesty International. 23 October 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
- ^ "Uganda abolishes mandatory death penalty". The East African. 21 August 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
- ^ Assheton, Richard (23 March 2023). "Uganda anti-homosexuality bill sets death penalty as punishment". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
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Capital punishment
- Hanging
- Shooting
- Lethal injection
- Nitrogen hypoxia
- Electrocution
- Gas chamber
- Beheading
- Stoning
Post-classical
methods
- Damnatio ad bestias
- Blood eagle
- Blowing from a gun
- Brazen bull
- Boiling
- Breaking wheel
- Burial
- Burning
- Crucifixion
- Crushing
- Disembowelment
- Dismemberment
- Drowning
- Elephant
- Falling
- Flaying
- Garrote
- Gibbeting
- Guillotine
- Hanged, drawn and quartered
- Immurement
- Impalement
- Ishikozume
- Mazzatello
- Sawing
- Scaphism
- Slow slicing
- Stoning
- Suffocation in ash
- Upright jerker
- Waist chop
- Enforcement or use by country
- Most recent executions by country
- Crime
- Death row
- Final statement
- Last meal
- Penology
- List of methods
- Religion and capital punishment
- Wrongful execution
- Botched execution
- Resolutions concerning death penalty at the United Nations
- Capital punishment for drug trafficking
- Capital punishment for homosexuality
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