Kenya has praised the formation of a Parliamentary Task Force to review the country's death penalty laws, calling it a crucial step in justice reform.Parliament will establish the task force to engage ...

Kenyan death penalty explainedEfforts have been made to restrict the scope and application of capital punishment. In 2017, Kenya’s Supreme Court declared the mandatory death penalty for murder ...

Kenya: The death penalty goes back many decades ... The Kikuyu reserved capital punishment for habitual murderers and major sexual offenders who were bound and left to die of exposure.

Some governments that retain the death penalty, such as Kenya, claim that they can’t abolish it while there is considerable public support for capital punishment. Until now, this had been true ...

Bankers face a fine of Sh20 million or three times the monetary gain, with the regulator leaning on the punitive penalty.