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Courts call for a review of an eye for an eye forms of punishment

Penal Code provides for the punishments that a court can issue. [File, Standard

There are many Kenyans who still remember the days when the criminal justice system operated on the basis of an eye for an eye.

This mode of punishment was especially common during the colonial era when convicted murderers were sentenced to die by hanging.

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