The High Court in Murang’a has termed life imprisonment as unconstitutional stating that it is unreasonable and absurd.
In a judgment by Justice Nixon Sifuna, he compared it to a death sentence, saying even though one is terminal and the other is not, they are the two sides of the same coin in terms of their severity and permanence.
He added that the sentence”permanently” deletes a convict from society and violates the right to human dignity.
“It is also an indignifying sentence, hence violates the right to human dignity, guaranteed under Article 28 of the Kenya Constitution 2010. It is therefore unsupportable irrespective of the logic or whatsoever rationalisation of aggravating factors that may be advanced in support,” Sifuna ruled.
By Star