It will be a sad day today for many Kenyans and beauty pageant fans. Ruth Kamande is a beauty queen in Kenya. She won Miss World Kenya Beauty Contest in 2013.

In September 2015, the 24-year-old was found guilty of stabbing her boyfriend 22 times in Buruburu, Nairobi in September 2015 after she discovered love letters from his ex-lovers.

According to daily advert, she claimed she killed him out of jealousy, when she discovered that he was still keeping in touch with his former girlfriend.

It was said that she enjoyed each and every stab wound she inflicted on his dead boyfriend. She had no remorse.

High Court judge, Jessie Lesiit committed the 2016 Miss Lang’ata Prison beauty queen to death despite the penalty having been lifted by a superior court saying her court was free to exercise discretion further stating that the death penalty was still enshrined in statutes.

Kamande’s legal team had claimed that she had converted to Islam and deserved a chance to turn her life around.

They told the court that she should given a lenient jail sentence, considering she has “established a close relationship with God”

They further pleaded for leniency on the basis that she was the only child of a single mother.

The judge, however, insisted that Kamande’s is case needed to serve as an example to young people who ma