A student at the Nyeri Polytechnic has been sentenced to death for stealing Sh 520 and two mobile phones worth Sh 17,000 from pedestrians.
The student was accused of using crude weapons during the incident and according to the law, robbery with violence is punishable by death under the Penal Code.
The definition of robbery requires that the perpetrator use or threaten to use violence while stealing.
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If robbery is committed while using a weapon, with a gang, or results in actual personal violence to the victim, it is punishable by death.
In 2013, the High Court in Nairobi held that the death penalty was not too severe a sentence for armed robbery and was therefore constitutional.
Elsewhere, a Kitale court on Tuesday slapped a woman identified as Jane Gichuhi with a 15-year prison sentence for defiling a 17-year-old boy.
Although she denied the charges, the court found that she committed the offenses between April 26 and May 11, 2015, at Machinjoni area.
The court’s decision followed a case in which the minor was the complainant.
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According to the student, Ms Gichuhi lured him into sex on her bed on April 29, 2015, when he visited her home.
He told Kitale Magistrate Grace Sitati that it first happened when he was on school holiday after first term.
From there, they engaged in sexual intercourse in his 'lion' or her home, not once but severally.
