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Nairobi \u2014 A Court of Appeal Judge is among jurists who have added their voice for the total abolition of the death penalty in Kenya, emphasizing its ineffectiveness as a deterrent to crime and its contradiction to human rights standards.<\/em><\/p>\n Speaking during the commemoration of the World Day Against the Death Penalty, Justice John Mativo noted the growing global trend toward its abolition.<\/p>\n He noted that many countries no longer implement the death penalty, even if it remains on their law books.<\/p>\n “It…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nairobi \u2014 A Court of Appeal Judge is among jurists who have added their voice for the total abolition of the death penalty in Kenya, emphasizing its ineffectiveness as a deterrent to crime and its contradiction to human rights standards. Speaking during the commemoration of the World Day Against the Death Penalty, Justice John Mativo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":182572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[19547,258,256,6137,6974,9835,49747,4688,430,257,11125,5100,254,9150],"class_list":["post-182571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-abolition","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-death","tag-groups","tag-jurists","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-penalty","tag-rights","tag-south-africa-today","tag-steps"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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