JORDAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE AND MURDER
April 27, 2009: a Jordanian man was sentenced to death by hanging for raping a teenaged cousin and fatally smashing his skull with a rock. A criminal court condemned the 28-year-old truck driver to death for raping and killing the 14-year-old boy on a deserted desert road between the southern cities of Madaba and Karak in 2007, the official told AFP. (Sources: Agence France Presse, 27/04/2009)
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