Man sentenced to death for killing four relatives Script

The High Court in Kisumu has sentenced a man to death after he pleaded guilty to four counts of murder. Thirty-year-old Shem Akuku Otieno admitted to hacking to death his wife, son and two other relatives in 2024 before surrendering to police and confessing to the killings. As Laura Otieno reports, the court found that the circumstances of the case amounted to a special circumstance warranting the death sentence under the Penal Code.