Donna Moonda Guilty of Murder

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(Akron, Ohio) In July 2006, Donna Moonda was implicated in the May 2005 murder of her husband, 69-year-old Dr. Gulam Moonda.

Today, a federal jury convicted Donna Moonda.

The jury now will decide whether Moonda, 48, of Hermitage, should be executed for hiring her lover to kill Dr. Gulam Moonda, 69.

Damian Ray Bradford, 25, a smalltime drug dealer from Center, testified during the three-week trial that he fatally shot Gulam Moonda along the Ohio Turnpike near Cleveland because Donna Moonda promised him a share of her husband's multimillion-dollar estate.

The jury of seven women and five men had deliberated since Thursday afternoon. They convicted Moonda of all the charges she faced: murder for hire, interstate stalking and two counts of using a firearm.

I'll be available for consultation in the event that the court is undecided on what her sentence should be. For the sake of full disclosure, however, I sense that my internal compassion scales are leaning away from understanding and forgiveness toward excruciatingly painful punishment and retribution.


[Update 09/21/07]

Moonda gets life in prison.