Hard labor for a Jordanian girl who killed her grandmother and poisoned her parents and 3 of her siblings with "cockroach exterminator"

The Jordanian Court of Cassation upheld a ruling by the High Criminal Court, which sentenced a girl to temporary labor for 10 years after she had killed her grandmother and poisoned her parents, brother and two sisters after she put (cockroach exterminator) in the food while cooking for her family.

According to the defendant's confession, in 2004 she put the poisonous substance (cockroach exterminator) in the cooking pot while her mother was preparing food for the purpose of harming her brother, not killing him, because of her disagreement with him, which led to the death of her grandmother and the poisoning of her parents, brother and two sisters.

The court convicted her of the felony of duly committed murder and the felony of attempted murder against more than one person, and decided to sentence her in absentia to death by hanging, and reduced her to temporary work for a period of 10 years to drop the person’s right, what the court considers as mitigating discretionary reasons in accordance with the Penal Code that was in force when the crime was committed.

In June 2022, the accused appealed the verdict before the Court of Cassation, which upheld the verdict and said that the punishment came within the prescribed legal limit for the crime for which she was convicted, after taking into account the discretionary mitigating reasons, and that the criminal court's decision fulfilled all legal requirements.

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