Kenyan cult leader faces death sentence over child murders

Therefore, from from from from from from Mackenzie was accused of urging followers from there to starve themselves to death in order to meet Jesus Christ. The case is part of the Shakahola Forest Massacre, in which hundreds Bodies have been found since 2023. Kenya retains the death penalty in law. but has not carried out his execution since 1987. McKenzie also faces separate manslaughter charges and terrorism charges which he denies, McKenzie was arrested in April 2023 after a rice group alerted authorities and some followers were rescued from the 325-hectare ranch in the Shakaola Forest on Kenya's coast the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights put The death toll reached 429 in 2024.