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Jordanian woman hanged twice
A JORDANIAN woman convicted of murdering two children was hanged twice today after the rope broke the first time because of her weight, police officials said. Itisam Hussein, 21, fell to the ground when the rope broke but did not fracture any bones, said one of the officials who attended the execution. She was frightened and in pain, but was not given any sedatives, he said, on condition of anonymity. The rope was changed and she was hanged within the hour, after a delay as prison wardens tried to calm her down.
| "Calm down, girly. They can't hang you when you're blubbering like that!" |
Today's hanging took place in Swaqa Penitentiary, 100 km south of the Jordanian capital, Amman. Hussein was found guilty in December 2002 of drowning two children in a canal near the biblical Jordan River. She was convicted of premeditated murder for the January 2002 murders and sentenced to death by hanging. Court records showed Hussein was seeking vengeance against her fiance's family, who opposed their marriage. She coaxed her fiance's sister and brother -- aged 5 and 6 respectively - to the canal, where she drowned them. It was the second strange hanging incident in Jordan since 1997, when the head of another woman convict split from her body during execution.
| Ow. I don't even want to think about it. |
Posted by: Fred 2004-03-01 |
