Overview
- The High Court, which ruled Thursday, imposed the death penalty on Christopher Okello Onyum after rejecting his insanity plea.
- Police said he posed as a parent, locked the nursery gate, and stabbed four toddlers in under seven minutes before a guard subdued him.
- The judge cited phone and laptop searches for “schools near me” and “ISIS beheading” as proof of planning.
- Prosecutors said he confessed and cast the killings as a “human sacrifice” to gain wealth, though the court found no clear political or religious motive.
- President Yoweri Museveni ordered a mobile court that drew cheering crowds as the judiciary defended the speed, while the Uganda Law Society called it a “judicial lynching rally,” and executions in Uganda are rare.