*Museveni:
Uganda may reintroduce executions*
Uganda
could begin enforcing the death penalty again, President Yoweri Museveni has
said, 13 years after the country's last execution. Mr Museveni said his
"Christian background" had prevented him from going ahead with
executions, but this "leniency" was encouraging criminals. Human
rights groups have warned against the move.
In
Uganda, 28 offences merit the death penalty, the highest in East Africa. Some
278 people are on death row. "I have not been assenting to hanging of
convicts because of my Christian background but being lenient is causing people
to think they can cause harm and get away with it," President Yoweri
Museveni wrote on Twitter.
He
also said he would "hang a few" at a graduation ceremony for prison
wardens in Kamapala on Thursday. "Executing prisoners won't end
crime," the executive director of Uganda's Foundation for Human Rights
Initiative, Livingstone Ssewanyana, told the Washington Post. "The police
are very weak with no capacity to investigate crimes extensively. As a result,
you find serious failures in the systems."
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