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Rights Lobby Faults Beauty Queen Ruth Kamande Sentence

Rights Lobby Faults Beauty Queen Ruth Kamande Sentence
Rights Lobby Faults Beauty Queen Ruth Kamande Sentence

Human rights group Amnesty International wants Kenya to commute Ruth Kamandeโ€™s death sentence, saying no crime deserves a capital sentence.

โ€œWe are concerned that Kenya continues to use this cruel, inhumane and outdated mode of punishment,โ€ Executive Director Irungu Houghton said in a statement on Friday.

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โ€œThis sentence is a blow to Kenyaโ€™s progressive record in commuting death sentences to terms of imprisonment.โ€

He added that there is no credible evidence that the death penalty deters crime any better than other lawful punishments and asked the courts to call for Kamandeโ€™s rehabilitation instead.

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The 24-year-old beauty queenย was sentenced to hang on Thursdayย in a jam-packed Nairobi court three years after she stabbed her boyfriend Farid Mohamed to death following a dispute.

The court heard that Kamandeย stabbed Mohamed 25 timesย not in quick succession but in intervals, leading him to bleed to death.

Her sentencing has excited a section of Kenyans on social media, some of whom feel she deserves the hangmanโ€™s noose for the nature of her crime, while others say she should be pardoned due to her good looks.

Death sentence in Kenya is essentially in name only, as the last execution was conducted in 1987.

Kenya currentlyย has no active hangman.

Source-nation.co.ke

 

Rights Lobby Faults Beauty Queen Ruth Kamande Sentence

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