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Outlook: What Susan Did on Death Row

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Susan Kigula

02/06/2018 GMT

What Susan Did on Death Row

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Susan Kigula led a choir, got a degree and changed Ugandan law as she waited to be hanged

Ugandan Susan Kigula was sent to prison for murder but while she waited for her execution she started a choir, gained a degree and managed to change the law of the land.

Ugandan Susan Kigula was a young mother when she was sentenced to hang for murder. She always maintained her innocence and sang songs of sorrow in a choir she formed with her fellow inmates on death row. Behind bars Susan also started a school and completed a law degree, but it's what she did next which would change the lives of more than 400 other inmates, as well as the law of the land.

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