Only surviving hangman dies

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Kenyas last hangman Micheal Kirugumi wa Njuki has passed away. The elderly man whose job was to hang prisoners on death row at the Kamiti maximum Prison died at 2:00 am on Tuesday morning after losing a battle to pneumonia. According to neighbours Njuki had been battling with the disease for a month. Njuki became a hangman at Kamiti in 1961 and worked until the 1980s when the prison gallows closed down. He leaves behind a grandson who has been taking care of him since he retired from prison service.

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[odiskamata]

Why did the hangman retired in poverty?

[Flow198812]

@habibi1213 I'm really curious what exact statistics you're talking about. I'm pretty sure they don't exist.

the "deterrent effect" of the death penalty is a myth. ever heard of the story of albert pierrepoint (last british hangman) and james henry corbitt? they knew each other, he knew about pierrepoint's job. anyways, he committed a murder and was later hanged by him. after retirement pierrepoint said "deterrence" in fact never worked and death penalty achieved nothing...nothing but revenge.

[habibi1213]

@Merc800 That's a ridiculou statement, USA is absolutely nowhere near the highest homicide rate. If you remove inner-city blacks from that statisitc it become aligned with most OECD countries (who also have strict gun laws). When the death sentence was removed in the states for two years in the 70s homocide rate doubled. It has slowly been decreasing since. A public university study found every executed person saved 5 lives, every commuted person cost 5 lives. That is looking at pure statistics.

[mpenzi2]

no one has the right to take any one's life.....thei guy looks miserable, and unfortunately he died poor...

[siasabora]

yu will have to go ask them that

[ikiplagat1]

Mungiki are offensive or defensive?

[KikumaBaridii]

Capital punishment was the way to go to punish people in the BIBLE - in the old testament. God ordered the execution of the enemies of his chosen people, Israel. If a Jew disobeyed God, he was also executed by his own people or by God himself as a law. When the Israelites were occupying the lands of Canaan, they were ordered by God to kill all the natives in those lands including women and children. Capital punishment has a place in our present societies too.

[Kenyansoul]

Im talking about premeditated murder and aggravated rape after culprits are found guilty beyond reasonable doubt. In your quest to save the few innocent lives we are create more murderers and rapists. System will not reform by avoiding harsh penalties for crimes committed.That is why Tourist tend to do the things they would not normally do in their respective countries like rape little girls in Mombasa. In Europe they are law abiding citizens but in Kenya they become predators of little girls.

[Merc800]

Don't forget many innocent people have been hanged in ALL those countries you have mentioned there. You should also know how justice work in Kenya--- the rich guilty walks scot free while the poor innocent are sent to prison.

[Kenyansoul]

@Merc800 You invoked the lord in your earlier comments. Case and Point Matheri; nobody is talking about him anymore. Justice was swift and instance and a lot of lives were saved. China, Singapore, Indonesia and most Arab countries have the best and effective capital punishment. This tends to indicate that the death penalty is a deterrent, but only where execution is a virtual certainty.The only is injustice the victim and the right is getting rid of the perpetrator of the crime permanently.