What Court should do when the convict of murder is pregnant woman?
Section 197 of the Penal Code Cap 16 provide for the punishment of murder that is, death sentence. The proviso to section 26(1) of Penal Code exonerates the pregnant woman who is a convict of murder from death sentence. The Provision to the proviso to section 26(1) in the Penal Code provides that, where the Court is satisfied that the woman convicted of an offence punishable with death is pregnant such court shall pass on her a sentence of imprisonment for life instead of a sentence of death.
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