Are police officers also criminals? Then how can they charged after conviction? Well, Police officers at some point engage in criminal activities and the law does not spare them.
On Friday, a Kandara Court found a police officer guilty of violently robbing a trader of vehicle and goods worth one million Ksh 1 million.
As a result, policeman Paul Ochieng was sentenced to death.
KANDARA COURT sentences to death policeman Paul Ochieng after finding him guilty of violently robbing trader of vehicle, goods worth Sh1 million. pic.twitter.com/tFIkBVspDx
— NationBreakingNews (@NationBreaking) December 7, 2018
Kandara court sentences to death policeman Paul Ochieng after finding him guilty of violently robbing a trader of vehicle and goods worth Sh1 million.
— JAMES MATHERI (@MATHERIJAMES) December 7, 2018
Capital punishment has been practiced in Kenya since before Indepence and is still provided for under Kenyan law. No executions have been carried out in Kenya since 1987, when Hezekiah Ochuka and Pancras Oteyo Okumu were hanged for treason.
In 2009, Kenya commuted all death sentences to life imprisonment, impacting over 4000 death row inmates. The move was made to compel these prisoners to work, something condemned men are exempted.
Despite the lack of executions, death sentences are still passed in Kenya. In July 2013, Ali Babitu Kololo was sentenced to death for his role in the murder and kidnapping of two British tourists, and in 2014 a nurse received a death sentence after being convicted of carrying out an abortion on a woman who subsequently died.
Do you again remember miss Lang’ata? The woman who was handed a life imprisonment by Lady Justice Jessie Lessit? Well, do you think the sentence should be stopped in Kenya or just continue?