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Woman gets life term

New York: A woman convicted of hiring her drug dealing lover to kill her wealthy Indian doctor husband has been sentenced to life imprisonment. A federal jury in Ohio decided to the send Donna Moonda (48) to prison without parole. The prosecution had charged the woman with promising her lover half of his 69-year-old husband Gulam Moonda’s multimillion dollar estate if he killed him. Donna’s lover, Bradford, testified during the trial that he had shot the doctor in the side of the head after Donna pulled over on the turnpike, supposedly to let her husband take the wheel on May 13, 2005. The jury favoured life imprisonment after Judge David D. Dowd Jr. told it that had no option other than giving death sentence or imprisonment without parole. — PTI

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