Attorney general appeals ruling on reduction of prison term - Jordan
Rana Husseini; 13/3/08
The Criminal Court attorney general on Wednesday said he appealed a court ruling reducing the prison term of a 70-year-old woman who was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison for the murder of her daughter in the Jordan Valley in July 2006. The Criminal Court had declared the defendant guilty of hacking to death her 26-year-old daughter, who had delivered a baby out of wedlock, and handed her a 15-year prison term on June 25. The sentence was immediately commuted to half because the victim’s father dropped charges against his wife. But the Court of Cassation, which has been reviewing the case for the past six months, overturned the verdict and asked the Criminal Court to consider the murder as being committed in a “fit of fury”.