Death sentence in Uganda explained

Widely described as a de facto abolitionist on account of having carried out its last executions in 2005, when an unspecified number of soldiers met their death by firing squad, Uganda presents as an oddity insofar as the death penalty is concerned.

When a resolution on a moratorium on the death penalty came up for voting at the UN General Assembly in December 2014, the country registered as an abstainer. Yet sitting on the fence has not always been the predisposition of its octogenarian President. Speaking to the subject in 2016, President Museveni’s audience came away with the…