Kenya will present her position on the ongoing global debate on the death penalty in Oslo, Norway, on Wednesday. This will be during the 6th World Congress Against the Death Penalty, whose theme for the year is 'Abolition Now'. Committee secretary Michael Kagika and Gerald Wandera, a director with the National Crime Research Centre, are leading the delegation. The annual congress brings together participants including government representatives, civil society, political representatives, lawyers and the media, who are keen on raising awareness on the death penalty. Since inception on November 1, 2011, 4,500 death row inmates have had their death sentences commuted to life imprisonment.

Source: The Star June 22, 2016 06:22 UTC