Tues 9th August 2022, Election Day
For Burfa Jara Dokota, Ismael Kalamasho Kabiru and Mohammed Alango Durbu, their offence was also murder. They were with one more person named Abdi Godana Jara who died in jail in 2018.They got death sentence in 2010 but applied for resentencing after the famous Muruatetu decision of the Supreme Court and got a 10 year sentence in 2019.Simon Ndung'u Ngugi, criminal case 52 of 2013, he together with a co-accused were charged with defiling a six-year-old girl identified as EWM, alternative to the charge of defilement they were charged with committing indecent act.The court gave them 40 years. Evidence against them showed that Ngugi forcefully penetrated the little girl while his co-accused tightly held her, blocking her mouth. But medical report later showed that he never achieved penetration because her hymen remained intact, hence was punished for attempted defilement.For Ann Wangari Mungai, in Criminal Case No. 73 of 2001, she got convicted and earned death sentence on July 26, 2004, for killing her step son. Her death sentence got commuted in 2010 and her later appeal saw her get 40 years in October 2020.James Githui Wathiaka got convicted of committing two murders in 2005 in Nyeri alongside seven others.They killed Mercy Ngima and Joseph Kagori on the same date. Waithaka had his daughter in law locked in the house while they killed the two victims.For Mary Wanjiku Nduta, she was part of a gang of four that robbed a man of Sh720,000 and a probox car before killing him in Kangundo in 2012, and got sent to the hang upon conviction. Her appeals failed in 2014.But the case of Jane Chesigei Sang is baffling because court records show that she had been freed in 2016 on account that she committed her crime when she was not sane.Records show that she killed her son in May 2007, when she suffered a bout of Cerebral malaria that had affected her mental sanity. But the trail court convicted her despite the medical records bearing her condition but Court of Appeal ordered her release in 2016.It is not clear why she had remained in jail warranting the pardon by the President.
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