She came to visit him to clean his house and wash his clothes.. the execution by hanging of a young man who slaughtered his mother with a knife

The Jordanian Court of Cassation has upheld a ruling ordering the death penalty for a young drug user by hanging for allegedly beheading his mother with a knife.

According to the Court of Cassation’s decision, the accused, a drug user, was causing trouble with the neighbors and beating and threatening his mother, who was in her sixties, which prompted her to leave the Marka area in Amman to one of the northern governorates, but she used to come to his house to do her duty towards him as a mother, clean the house and wash his clothes.

While she was talking to him to try to persuade him to quit using drugs and leave problems with the neighbors, he brought a knife and stabbed her (12) in separate parts of her body before he cut her neck. He informed the security services and was arrested.

The court incriminated him with the felony of murder inflicted on one of the origins, and increased the penalty against him due to the presence of an aggravating circumstance against him, as he committed the crime against his mother, who is one of his ascendants, with knowledge of this aggravating circumstance.

The court rejected a plea submitted by the defense attorney that the accused committed his crime while he was not mentally able to use drugs, and the court said that Article (93) of the Penal Code stipulated that the criminal who lacks feeling or choice in his work at the time of the commission of the act due to a coma arising from alcohol or alcohol should not be punished. Narcotic drugs of any kind if he took them without his consent or without his knowledge of them, and since the accused, according to his confession, took narcotic pills of his own free will, which makes this reason unthinkable.

The Court of Cassation added that the decision of the High Criminal Court fulfilled all its legal requirements, a fact, a reason and a punishment, and it decided to uphold the ruling.

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