“Hanging a person is not a deterrent... That is why I petitioned against the death penalty,” said Susan Kigula, upon her successful challenge in the famous Ugandan case of Susan Kigula and 416 Others vs Attorney General, Constitutional Petition No. 6 of 2003.
Ms Kigula, a Ugandan who had been on death row after the courts found her guilty of murdering her husband, starred in a landmark case in the country’s jurisprudence on the death penalty as an automatic sentence for capital offenders.
