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63-year-old Mombasa death row inmate to be freed in 2026

A 63-year-old man escaped the hangman’s noose after the High Court quashed his death sentence and jailed him for 18 years.

Joseph Muthoka has been on death row for 12 years after he was convicted for the murder of a woman on September 30, 2007 in Taita Taveta County.

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