executions in the world:

In 2024

0

2000 to present

0

legend:

  • Abolitionist
  • retentionist
  • De facto abolitionist
  • Moratorium on executions
  • Abolitionist for ordinary crimes
  • Committed to abolishing the death penalty

UGANDA

 
government: presidential republic
state of civil and political rights: Not free
constitution: 8 October 1995; amended several times, last in 2018
legal system: mixed legal system of English common law and customary law; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
legislative system: unicameral National Assembly or Parliament
judicial system: Supreme Court of Uganda (consists of the chief justice and at least 6 justices); Court of Appeal (also acts as the Constitutional Court); High Court (includes 12 High Court Circuits and 8 High Court Divisions); Industrial Court; Chief Magistrate Grade One and Grade Two Courts throughout the country; qadhis courts; local council courts; family and children courts
religion: Protestant 45.1% (Anglican 32.0%, Pentecostal/Born Again/Evangelical 11.1%, Seventh Day Adventist 1.7%, Baptist .3%), Roman Catholic 39.3%, Muslim 13.7%, other 1.6%, none 0.2% (2014 est.)
death row: 208 (11 women and 197 men) in 2016, source: Aliyo Natukunda, Uganda Prisons Service
year of last executions: 0-0-0
death sentences: 0
executions: 0
international treaties on human rights and the death penalty:

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Convention on the Rights of the Child

Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment


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