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Ghanaian driver faces death penalty for murdering 2 African-American women
According to local news agency in Ghana; Graphic, Yaw murdered the women for fear of being exposed for stealing from them.
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The sentence was reached after the court presided over by Justice Merley Afua Wood found Yaw Anokye Frimpong, 22, guilty on two counts of murder.
"Yaw Anokye Frimpong, the men and woman elected to decide your trial, having found you guilty of murder, you are hereby sentenced to death by hanging and may God have mercy on your soul," Justice Wood said.
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Sympathizers of the MarnelinaDiop, 75, and Nzinga Jaana 69, (the two women murdered by Frimpong), could not hold back their tears when the jury delivered its verdict and the presiding judge pronounced the death penalty.
Mesdames Diop and Jaana were among a group of African- Americans who had acquired a vast tract of land in Akwamufie and later settled on it. The African-Americans named the community Fihankra.
Six persons, including Frimpong, were arrested as part of investigations into the murder. Frimpong is said to have confessed to killing the women during interrogations.
He was charged with murder, while the five other accused persons were charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
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During the committal proceedings at the Accra Central District Court, Frimpong confessed to single-handedly clubbing the two women to death. The five other accused persons were later discharged.
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