Kenya has commuted the sentences of everyone awaiting execution to life imprisonment:
Kenya's President has commuted the sentences of all the country's death row inmates to life imprisonment.
Thousands of prisoners condemned to death have been spared their lives although Kenya very rarely carries the sentences out - the last execution taking place in 1987.
At the stroke of a pen, President Uhuru Kenyatta commuted the sentences of 2,655 male and 92 female death row inmates.
This is obviously a good start in the fight against the death penalty, and reflects the government's opposition to it. But capital punishment is still on the books in Kenya. It should be repealed.
