JORDAN: DEATH PENALTY FOR MAN WHO MURDERED NEIGHBOUR
July 15, 2018: The Court of Cassation has upheld a December Criminal Court ruling sentencing a 38-year-old man to death after convicting him of murdering a man in Zarqa over old feuds in August 2014. The court declared the defendant guilty of shooting and stabbing to death a 32-year-old man who lived in his neighbourhood on August 28 and handed him the maximum punishment. Court papers said that the defendant and the victim lived in the same neighbourhood in Zarqa and had constant problems and impending cases in courts against each other. The Court of Cassation judges were Mohammad Ibrahim, Naji Zubi, Yassin Abdullat, Bassim Mubeidin and Majid Azab. (Sources: jordantimes.com, 15/07/2018)
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