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<div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p> <b>Capital punishment</b> has been a legal penalty in <b><a href="/wiki/Kenya" title="Kenya">Kenya</a></b> since before its <a href="/wiki/Kenya#History" title="Kenya">independence</a>, and continues to be so under Kenyan law. No executions have been carried out in Kenya since 1987,<sup id="cite_ref-nation-ag_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nation-ag-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> when <a href="/wiki/Hezekiah_Ochuka" title="Hezekiah Ochuka">Hezekiah Ochuka</a> and Pancras Oteyo Okumu, leaders of the <a href="/wiki/1982_Kenyan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt" class="mw-redirect" title="1982 Kenyan coup d'état attempt">1982 coup d'état attempt</a>, were <a href="/wiki/Hanging" title="Hanging">hanged</a> for <a href="/wiki/Treason" title="Treason">treason</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-knchr_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-knchr-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Presidents have on occasion commuted all death sentences to life imprisonment, and thereby releasing all inmates from death row, most recently in 2016. There is no current policy to abolish the death penalty.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite the lack of executions, <a href="/wiki/Death_sentence" class="mw-redirect" title="Death sentence">death sentences</a> are still passed in Kenya. In July 2013, Ali Babitu Kololo was sentenced to death for his role in the murder and kidnapping of two British tourists,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in 2014 a nurse received a death sentence after being convicted of carrying out an <a href="/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion">abortion</a> on a woman who subsequently died<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although her sentence was eventually reversed by the court of appeal in Kenya </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Capital_punishment_in_Kenya&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Capital punishment was introduced in Kenya in 1893 by the <a href="/wiki/Kenya_Colony" title="Kenya Colony">British colonial government</a>; the practice was infrequent in pre-colonial communities, which placed a value on restorative justice.<sup id="cite_ref-standard-cp_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-standard-cp-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In general, most African communities did not use death sentences as part of administering justice except for offenders who had repeatedly "made themselves dangerous beyond the limits of endurance of their fellows".<sup id="cite_ref-murder-and-mercy_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-murder-and-mercy-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The penal code as created by the British stipulated a mandatory death penalty for <a href="/wiki/Murder" title="Murder">murder</a>, <a href="/wiki/Treason" title="Treason">treason</a> and <a href="/wiki/Armed_robbery" class="mw-redirect" title="Armed robbery">armed robbery</a>. Numerous executions, documented as 1,090 in number, were carried out by the colonial government during the <a href="/wiki/Mau_Mau_rebellion" title="Mau Mau rebellion">Mau Mau rebellion</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-murder-and-mercy_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-murder-and-mercy-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After <a href="/wiki/1982_Kenyan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt" class="mw-redirect" title="1982 Kenyan coup d'état attempt">the 1982 coup d'état attempt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hezekiah_Ochuka" title="Hezekiah Ochuka">Hezekiah Ochuka</a>, Pancras Oteyo Okumu and two other masterminds of the coup were convicted of treason, sentenced to death and subsequently hanged in July 1987. They were the last people executed in Kenya to date.<sup id="cite_ref-standard-cp_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-standard-cp-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2010, the <a href="/wiki/Court_of_Appeal_of_Kenya" title="Court of Appeal of Kenya">Court of Appeal</a> repealed the mandatory death sentence for murder in <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mutiso_v._Republic&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mutiso v. Republic (page does not exist)">Mutiso v. Republic</a></i>, the third national court in common-law Africa to do so.<sup id="cite_ref-suffolk_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-suffolk-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2016, President <a href="/wiki/Uhuru_Kenyatta" title="Uhuru Kenyatta">Uhuru Kenyatta</a> commuted the death sentences of 2,747 inmates on death row to life imprisonment. President <a href="/wiki/Mwai_Kibaki" title="Mwai Kibaki">Mwai Kibaki</a> had implemented a similar action in 2009. All of the 4,000 death row inmates who were awaiting execution had their sentences vacated and commuted to life imprisonment. The intention was to compel the prisoners involved to partake in physical labour, from which death row prisoners are exempt.<sup id="cite_ref-independent-cp_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-independent-cp-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2017 the Supreme Court abolished the mandatory death penalty, declaring it unconstitutional.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A widely circulated report in 2018-19 implied that the government had announced its intent to reintroduce the death penalty for wildlife poaching. 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href="/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Guinea" title="Capital punishment in Guinea">Guinea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Guinea-Bissau" title="Capital punishment in Guinea-Bissau">Guinea-Bissau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Ivory_Coast" title="Capital punishment in Ivory Coast">Ivory Coast</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Kenya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Lesotho" title="Capital punishment in Lesotho">Lesotho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Liberia" title="Capital punishment in Liberia">Liberia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Libya" title="Capital punishment in Libya">Libya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Madagascar" title="Capital punishment in Madagascar">Madagascar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Malawi" title="Capital punishment in Malawi">Malawi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Mali" title="Capital punishment in 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