MAN RECEIVES DEATH SENTENCE FOR DOUBLE MURDER

according to the Jordan Times, the Criminal Court sentenced a 38-year-old man to death for the premeditated murder of his ex-wife and a man in Amman in 2004. The defendant, M. A., was handed two death sentences after being convicted of fatally shooting the pair. Court transcripts said the defendant divorced his wife in return for JD1,400, and then plotted to murder them for breaking up his marriage.