0*0p3&? vt Ms. Aidah KISUMO, Senior State Attorney, Attorney General's Chambers; vil Mr. Elisha SUKU, Foreign Service Officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and I nternational Cooperation. After deliberation, renders the following Judgment I. THE PARTIES 1. Shukrani Masegenya Mango, Ally Hussein Mwinyi, Juma Zuberi Abasi, Julius Joshua Masanja, Michael Jairos, Azizi Athuman Buyogela, Samwel M Mtakibidya (hereinafter referred to as "the Applicants") are all nationals of the United Republic of Tanzania (hereinafter referred to as "the Respondent State"). The First Applicant, Shukrani Masegenya Mango, and the Seventh Applicant, Samwel M Mtakibidya, were both convicted and sentenced for armed robbery while the rest of the Applicants were convicted and sentenced for murder. Although the Applicants were convicted in different cases and at different times, they filed this Application jointly raising one major common grievance which relates to the exercise of the presidential prerogative of mercy by the Respondent State. With the exception of the Second Applicant, who died on 1 1 May 2015, all the Applicants are serving their sentences at Ukonga Central Prison in Dar es Salaam. 2. The Respondent State became a Party to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (hereinafter referred to as "the Charter") on 21 October 1986 and the Protocol on 10 February 2006. lt also deposited, on 29 March 2010, the Declaration under Article 34(6) of the protocol through which it accepts the jurisdiction of the Court to receive cases from individuals and Non-Governmental Organisations 2 r/7 \--./'