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Kenya

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With a moratorium on executions
Country status
252
Sentenced
0
Execution(s)
+
Conviction(s)
Figures for 2025. The last execution in Kenya took place in 1987.

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Crime Si Poa
Kenya

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Human Rights Protection Mechanisms
Summary report for the Universal Periodic Review of Kenya (2025)
Oct 2024

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The death penalty in law and in practice in Kenya
Table – Voting trends on the UN resolution calling for a universal moratorium
Leaflet – UN resolution calling for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty
Monitoring conditions of detention of prisoners sentenced to death: pratical guide for NHRIs and NPMs
Africa, abolition of the death penalty in sight

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Pete Ouko au Congrès régional d'Abidjan en 2018
In pictures, Testimony
Pete Ouko : “Don’t be limited by fear, don’t be limited by anything”
25 April 2025
From 19 to 23 March, 2025, Pete Ouko, former death row prisoner in Kenya, was in Geneva first before travelling to Paris and Lyon from 23 March to 4 April to share his testimony, with ECPM. After spending eighteen years in prison, including eight years on death row, Pete Ouko…
Participants à la Conférence Nationale « The death penalty and community safety in Kenya : separating myth from reality » à Nairobi
Advocacy, In the field
Kenya : ECPM and Crime Si Poa together towards the abolition of the death penalty
26 March 2025
No executions have been carried out in Kenya since 1987, so the country is considered to be in a moratorium. This status was reflected in the last vote for the resolution for a universal moratorium on the use of the death penalty in 2024, during which Kenya voted in favour…
Advocacy, In the field
#ABOLITIONNOWTOUR: A look back on a year of activism around the world
01 December 2022
A year ago, ECPM launched an exceptional mobilisation of the world's youth, aimed at raising awareness among the new generation about the issues at stake in the abolition of the death penalty and to give new impetus to the fight led by the activists from the outset. Six delegations of…
Testimony
Sylvia Morwabe: “Young people are and can be the voice for abolition in Kenya”
18 November 2022
Sylvia Morwabe is a lawyer at the High Court of Kenya and Programme Director at Crime Si Poa®. She provides strategic legal support to the Youth Safety Awareness Initiative, which works to promote social justice and a crime-free society through education, advocacy and social initiatives aimed at children and young…
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