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Zoe, Alsop "Kenya inmates discover 'now I have a future'." USA Today n.d.: Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 14 Oct. 2009.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Kenya Prisoners
For the past 16 years a local Kenyan, Grace Mokeira, sat in prison waiting in fear for the day she would be put to death by the hangman. That all changed last month when the Kenyan President, Mwai Kibaki, announced she would be changing all death sentences to life in prison, which made Kenya the latest country to do so. "My life was worthless," Mokeira, 32, says she feels like she has a second chance at life, almost like a breath of relief. "Now I have a future. I have a vision for what I can do." She is now waiting to be reviewed by a probation officer, because her time spent in prison and recent wave of death penalty make her a possible candidate for a presidential pardon. If she is released from prison she hopes to record gospel song and start her own business.
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This is kind of an interesting article. I kind of want to know why she is in prison, though. Maybe I"ll just have to read the article.
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