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Living with a Death Sentence in Kenya: Prisoners' Experiences of Crime, Punishment and Death Row

Living with a Death Sentence in Kenya: Prisoners' Experiences of Crime, Punishment and Death Row
  • Locations: Africa, Kenya
  • Resource type: Policy briefs
  • Themes: Deterrence, Discrimination, Experiences of criminal justice
  • Published: 24 January 2023

In Kenya, approximately 600 people are currently on death row.

To learn more about their backgrounds and experiences, The Death Penalty Project in partnership with the Kenyan National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) commissioned Professor Carolyn Hoyle and Lucrezia Rizzelli at the University of Oxford, to conduct research – the first of its kind undertaken in Kenya – to determine who is being subjected to the harshest punishments and learn details of their experiences of the justice process.

Read the full report, Living with a Death Sentence in Kenya: Prisoners’ Experiences of Crime, Punishment and Death Row here.

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