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US woman convicted of hiring lover to kill Indian husband van reveive death penalty or life in prison without parole
Tushar Chatterjee
Jul. 7, 2007
An American woman accused of offering her younger lover a share of her husband's multimillion-dollar estate if he would kill the 69-year-old Indian doctor was convicted of murder-for-hire and other charges.
It was case of greed, extramarital affair, and a cruel end.
The defense had argued that Donna Moonda's 25-year-old lover, Damian Bradford, had acted alone and that Moonda had tried to revive her doctor husband after Bradford shot him along the Ohio turnpike. Federal prosecutors said the two were in it together and portrayed Moonda as a perpetual liar, thief, and drug user.
Moonda quietly cried when the verdict was read yesterday. The 48-year-old former nurse could receive the death penalty or life in prison without parole.
Bradford, the key witness, has admitted to shooting Dr Gulam Moonda in the side of the head on May 13, 2005, after his wife pulled over on the turnpike south of Cleveland, supposedly to let her husband take the wheel.
The jury also convicted Moonda of interstate stalking and two counts of using or carrying a firearm in the commission of a violent crime.
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