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Kenyan woman to hang over husband’s death

Janet Karamana Gituma

A woman who had been jailed for hiring hitmen to kill her husband was yesterday sentenced to hang.

Janet Karamana, 56, sobbed uncontrollably as the judgment was read at the Court of Appeal. She had appealed a 30-year-sentence handed by the High Court for a crime that she maimed her husband, Moses Gituma, and eventually killed him.

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