{"id":24791,"date":"2016-10-25T07:19:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T07:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=24791"},"modified":"2016-10-25T07:19:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T07:19:10","slug":"amnesty-welcomes-kenyattas-stance-on-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/amnesty-welcomes-kenyattas-stance-on-death-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty welcomes Kenyatta&#8217;s stance on death penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">Rights body Amnesty International has welcomed the decision by Kenya\u2019s President Uhuru Kenyatta to commute all death sentences to life imprisonment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">In a statement issued to the media, Muthoni Wanyeki, Amnesty International\u2019s Regional Director for East Africa says yesterday\u2019s decision brings Kenya closer to the growing community of nations that have abolished this cruel form of punishment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">Wanyeki has called for total abolition of the death penalty for posterity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">President Kenyatta\u2019s decision means that the over 2,700 prisoners currently on death row in Kenya will now serve life sentences.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rights body Amnesty International has welcomed the decision by Kenya\u2019s President Uhuru Kenyatta to commute all death sentences to life imprisonment. In a statement issued to the media, Muthoni Wanyeki, Amnesty International\u2019s Regional Director for East Africa says yesterday\u2019s decision brings Kenya closer to the growing community of nations that have abolished this cruel form of punishment. Wanyeki has called for total abolition of the death penalty for posterity. President Kenyatta\u2019s decision means that the over 2,700 prisoners currently on death row in Kenya will now serve life sentences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":24796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}