23-year-old sentenced to death for murdering minor - Jordan/Capital Punishment
Rana Husseini; 1/4/08
The Criminal Court on Monday sentenced a 23-year-old man to death after convicting him of raping and murdering an eight-year-old child in Irbid on July 28, 2006. The tribunal declared Ahmad K. guilty of raping and murdering the child, a relative of his, and handed him the maximum punishment. The court said the defendant and the victim were attending a wedding when Ahmad lured the child to a deserted area, undressed him by force and sexually assaulted him. “The boy started crying and told the defendant he was going to inform his grandfather about what happened,” the court said. Fearing that the incident would be exposed, the defendant pressed the child’s neck until he fell to the ground, according to the court documents.