World | Uganda Uganda Won't Sentence Gays to Death Death penalty is dropped from proposed new law By John Johnson Posted Dec 9, 2009 4:58 PM CST Copied David Cato, a Ugandan gay-rights activist, poses for photographs at a restaurant in Kampala, Uganda, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera) Uganda still views homosexuals as "repugnant," but it won't execute them or send them to jail for life because of their sexual orientation. Those two punishments are being dropped from an anti-gay bill being readied for parliament, the nation's ethics and integrity minister said. The government approves of the measures, but it's bowing to the desires of religious leaders. New penalties are being formulated, along with mandated counseling to help those with "errant" orientation, reports Bloomberg. Read These Next The penny is still with us, but the headache has already arrived. Major websites, apps affected by massive outage. Secret Service finds something strange pointed at Trump's plane. A former NFL Pro Bowler has died at age 36. Report an error