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Former prisons beauty queen Ruth Wanjiku Kamande gestures in court after she was sentenced to death by a Nairobi court on July 19, 2018. She was found guilty of murdering her boyfriend Farid Mohammed in 2015. [George Njunge/ Standard]
Justice Jessie Lesiit handed 24-year-old Ruth Kamande a death sentence on Thursday. The judgement plunges Kenya backwards into the company of a small number of countries still using the death penalty.
The sentence offends our Bill of Rights and directly challenges our national values.
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