The sentencing of a 24-year-old beauty queen in Kenya to death for killing her boyfriend three years ago has been met with mixed reactions in the country. Ruth Kamande, who has been in custody since 2015, was on Thursday found guilty of stabbing her boyfriend, Farid Mohammed about 22 times to death. Submissions made in court indicated that Kamande stabbed Mohammed severally following a dispute that generated after she found out that the victim was HIV positive and was taking medication all along without her knowledge. A human rights group, Amnesty International also wants Kenya to commute Kamande’s death sentence, saying no crime deserves a capital sentence. The 2016 winner of the Miss Lang’ata Prison beauty pageant had, in February this year, told the court that she stabbed her boyfriend in self-defence.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 20, 2018 19:35 UTC