Woman has sentence quashed by Tanzania court after over a decade on death row
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A Tanzanian court overturned a death sentence for a woman with intellectual disabilities after 11+ years.
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A Tanzanian court has quashed the conviction and death sentence of Lemi Limbu, a woman with severe intellectual disabilities who spent more than a decade on death row after being convicted of murdering her daughter in 2015. The Shinyanga court's March 4 ruling grants Limbu the right to appeal, though she remains imprisoned and will face retrial on a date yet to be determined. The case highlights ongoing concerns about the fairness of capital proceedings for defendants with cognitive disabilities in countries that retain the death penalty. Limbu, now in her early 30s, had been awaiting execution for over ten years before the court intervened. Her case is part of a broader pattern in which vulnerable defendants, particularly those with intellectual impairments, have faced disproportionate risk in capital cases.
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A Shinyanga court declared Lemi Limbu's conviction quashed and granted her the right to appeal; a retrial date is pending.
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