Seventy years after South Carolina executed a 14-year-old boy so small he sat on a phone book in the electric chair, a circuit court judge threw out his murder conviction.
Civil Society and Members of Parliament propose tabling a bill in Parliament calling for the abolition of Death Penalty. The Uganda Prisons Services are also in support of the abolition of the Death Penalty saying it gives inmates an opportunity to reform to become responsible citizens.
After serving three years on death row in San Quentin, California, Shujaa Graham was exonerated over the 1973 killing of prison guard Jerry Sanders. Now he is the vice chair of Witness to Innocence, an organization that works to empower exonerated death row survivors.