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JORDAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH AFTER KILLING WIFE FOR REFUSING SEX

07 May 2010 :

a 28-year-old Jordanian man was sentenced to death by the Amman Criminal Court for killing his wife and chopping her body up into small pieces because she allegedly refused to have sex with him, a court official said.
The man drug his wife, a nurse, and then killed her in December 2007 because she disrespected him and disobeyed him.
 
(Sources: Herald Sun, 07/05/2010)

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Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.