Uganda to remove death penalty from anti-gay bill

Uganda will drop executions and life imprisonment from it’s ”anti-homosexuality,” but will instead direct gays to “ex-gay” programs.

James Nsaba Buturo, minister for ethics and integrity, said the modified bill would come before Parliament in two weeks, Pink News said.

The US State Department, France and the UK all had expressed concern over the bill, with UK gay groups urging leaders to throw Uganda out of the Commonwealth and a Swedish political leader said that aid to Uganda would be cut unless the law was dropped.