BBC News: Kenya empties its death-row cells

Capital Punishment, Death Penalty, execution, Foreign News, Human Rights Leave a comment

By Will Ross
BBC News, Nairobi

More than 4,000 prisoners on death row in Kenya will have their sentences commuted to life imprisonment, President Mwai Kibaki has announced.

No death sentences have been carried out in Kenya for more than two decades.

Since then more than 4,000 people have been on death row in the country’s overcrowded, underfunded prisons.

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