KENYA: WOMAN, 5 RELATIVES TO HANG FOR KILLING HER HUSBAND
February 14, 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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