A Tanzanian court sentenced a teacher to death Wednesday after a 13-year-old pupil died from a beating meted out by him in a case that sparked a national debate on corporal punishment in schools.
The child,
Corporal punishment in Kenya was abolished after many cases of brutality shown by teachers in administering discipline.
Judge Lameck Mlacha of the court in Bukoba in the north west, found teacher Respicius Mutazangira “guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of voluntary homicide” and sentenced him to death.
Mutazangira has the right to appeal.
The boy’s parents, in protest, had refused to bury their son until authorities arrested the teacher and suspended the school principal.