So Many innocent people are dying...

I once heard a man who was from prison, wrongly convicted, who sat up and asked us if we knew just how many people were wrongly convicted in Tanzania, how many people were in prison because they couldnt afford a bribe or were too poor to fight for their rights..This is the case not only in Tanzania...

Edmary Mpagi and his cousin Fred Masembe were convicted by a Ugandan court and sentenced to death for the murder of a man who was later found alive. Masembe died in prison before he could face the gallows while Mpagi spent 18 years waiting to be executed by the state.Mpagi said his conviction was based on fabricated evidence by the state. He claims a pathologist was bribed to falsely testify that he had carried out a post-mortem on the body of William George Wandyaka, the man Mpagi and Masembe were accused of murdering.

Mpagi was released from prison in July 2000 after receiving apresidential pardon. He spends much of his time campaigning against the death penalty.

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