Legitimacy or otherwise of death penalty in Uganda critique of the criminal justice system
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2015-06
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Kampala International University, School of Law
Abstract
The purpose of the study was to investigate legitimacy or otherwise of death penalty in Uganda
critique of the criminal justice system.
The study objectives involved to investigate Crime prevention and the deterrence theory, to
Evaluate Rational Choice and Deterrence Theory, and to Evaluate the Evidence against the
Death Penalty.
The study findings will help policy makers like the judiciary in double revising the gap identined
in the study to implement new amendments regarding death penalty
The study will be relevant for victims under death penalty to seek equal justice
The research design adopted in this study will be a case study design. This study will emphasize
detailed contextual analysis of a limited number of events or conditions and their relationships.
The study will use both qualitative and quantitative (Creswell, 2003) asserts that a mixed
methods design is useful to capture the best of both quantitative and qualitative approaches.
This report goes ahead to give the recommendation which can be Economic studies "find each
execution results in three fewer murders, five fewer homicides, between three and 25 fewer
murders with an average of 14, between8-28 murders with an average of 18, and even 150 fewer
murders." The death penalty does have deterrent effect. To say otherwise would be to admit that
potential murderers are not rational (and thus admit that they should not be subject to criminal
justice at all).
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Research dissertation submitted to the faculty of law in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award a Degree of Law of Kampala International University Uganda
Keywords
Legitimacy, Death penalty, Criminal justice system, Uganda