Convicted Murderers Should Be Sentenced to Death-Museveni

In Summary
  • Museveni was speaking at the Benedicto Kiwanuka Memorial day.

President Museveni has lashed out at Judges for handing a life sentence Imprisonment to convicted murderers instead of a death Penalty. 

Speaking at the Benedicto Kiwanuka Memorial day, at the High Court Headquarters in Kampala, President Museveni said that people who murder others do not deserve to live and that as an African  he believes in "an eye for an eye"

You killed a person  and you are put in prison for life? The one you killed is not in jail but he is dead.
President Museveni 

President Museveni added that the question of committing the death sentence can come later, emphasizing that it must be 'a life for a life'.

According to President Museveni an eye for an eye is the way people understand justice in the villages and him as a freedom fighter.

President Museveni contended that it was a very big provocation if murderers are jailed for life and advised judges to be careful.