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Kenya - Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - Death Penalty - January 2025

Kenya has not carried out any executions since the late 1980s. Nonetheless, courts continue to hand down death sentences without providing the heightened fair trial protections that international standards require in capital cases. Additionally, authorities have violated the prohibition against non-refoulement by forcibly repatriating people to countries that practice the death penalty and engage in other human rights abuses. Kenya should formally abolish the death penalty, commute the sentences of all persons on death row, revise laws to remove capital punishment from the list of available sentences, and investigate and prohibit the forced repatriation of foreign nationals to countries where they face the threat of the death penalty or other serious human rights violations.