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KENYA: WOMAN, 5 RELATIVES TO HANG FOR KILLING HER HUSBAND

14 February 2019 :

The Court of Appeal on 12 February 2019 turned down an appeal by a woman and her five relatives who were sentenced to death for killing her husband in Kiambu in 2004.
Anne Waithera, her son Joseph Maina, her sister Ruth Wanjiru and three other distant relatives were sentenced to die in 2014 for murdering her husband David Macharia for marrying a second wife and over greed for property.
Justice Florence Muchemi found the six guilty of murder.

 
(Sources: nation.co.ke, 12/02/2019)

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URGENT APPEAL FOR MELISSA LUCIO

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On April 27, the State of Texas will carry out the death sentence on Melissa Lucio.

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Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.