'JILTED' JORDANIAN TO HANG FOR KILLING COUSIN
a Jordanian man said to have been jilted by his teenage cousin was sentenced to death for stabbing her to death during her wedding to another relative, a court official said.
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a Jordanian man said to have been jilted by his teenage cousin was sentenced to death for stabbing her to death during her wedding to another relative, a court official said. In 2008, the man, who was 26, stabbed the 16-year-old with a dagger five times in the chest and stomach at a court in the southern city of Karak, according to the charge sheet.
— SOURCES
- (Sources: Agence France Presse, 10/06/2010)
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