AMMAN - A Jordanian court has reduced the sentence of a man who killed his daughter because she left home without her husband's knowledge from death to 10 years in jail, an official said Thursday.
"On January 29 the court initially condemned the man to death but gave him a reduced jail sentence after the family dropped all legal claims against him," the judicial official told AFP.
"He has confessed to shooting and killing his daughter, who was in her late 20s, because she left her house for several days without her husband's knowledge."
He said the crime took place on November 13, 2012 in Ruseifeh, east of the capital Amman.
The convict "confessed that he killed the woman to cleanse the family's honour," the official added.
Murder is punishable by death in Jordan, but in so-called "honour killings" courts usually commute or reduce sentences if the victim's family requests leniency.
Separately, prosecutors on Thursday charged a man and his son with shooting and killing the man's daughter for getting married without their approval.
"The woman disappeared last year and got married without the approval of her family. When her father and brother found her, they shot her dead," in the southern city of Karak, a security official told AFP without elaborating.
Between 15 and 20 women are murdered in honour killings in Jordan each year, despite government efforts to curb such crimes."
I guessed I will NEVER understand the traditional values that drive people to kill their own kins.
Lessons for me are:
1. traditional values can be VERY DEEP ROOTED and even when the laws of the land prohibit certain behaviors, that does not necessarily mean people won't do it! In these cases, clearly the accused or accuseds KNEW it is against the law to carry out such 'honour killing'!;
2. while these cases occurred in the home country, there were reports of such 'honour killing' in host countries where the accuseds and the victims had migrated to. Sometimes such cases create a big "hoohah" in the host country as people expressed disbelief why someone would kill one of their own for such 'trivial' reasons!;
3. what would happened IF some of the new citizens in Singapore carried out such 'honour killing'? Or something pretty absurd and cruel by Singapore's way of life? How would we react? Using the 'law of consequences' seems the most logical method by pragmatic Singaporeans - IF it is NOT frequent and prevalent, and if such population is relatively small, we will punish the culprits with NO 'reduced sentence' according to Singapore laws and that's that.
Interesting scenario that I hope we will NEVER have to deal with!
"On January 29 the court initially condemned the man to death but gave him a reduced jail sentence after the family dropped all legal claims against him," the judicial official told AFP.
"He has confessed to shooting and killing his daughter, who was in her late 20s, because she left her house for several days without her husband's knowledge."
He said the crime took place on November 13, 2012 in Ruseifeh, east of the capital Amman.
The convict "confessed that he killed the woman to cleanse the family's honour," the official added.
Murder is punishable by death in Jordan, but in so-called "honour killings" courts usually commute or reduce sentences if the victim's family requests leniency.
Separately, prosecutors on Thursday charged a man and his son with shooting and killing the man's daughter for getting married without their approval.
"The woman disappeared last year and got married without the approval of her family. When her father and brother found her, they shot her dead," in the southern city of Karak, a security official told AFP without elaborating.
Between 15 and 20 women are murdered in honour killings in Jordan each year, despite government efforts to curb such crimes."
I guessed I will NEVER understand the traditional values that drive people to kill their own kins.
Lessons for me are:
1. traditional values can be VERY DEEP ROOTED and even when the laws of the land prohibit certain behaviors, that does not necessarily mean people won't do it! In these cases, clearly the accused or accuseds KNEW it is against the law to carry out such 'honour killing'!;
2. while these cases occurred in the home country, there were reports of such 'honour killing' in host countries where the accuseds and the victims had migrated to. Sometimes such cases create a big "hoohah" in the host country as people expressed disbelief why someone would kill one of their own for such 'trivial' reasons!;
3. what would happened IF some of the new citizens in Singapore carried out such 'honour killing'? Or something pretty absurd and cruel by Singapore's way of life? How would we react? Using the 'law of consequences' seems the most logical method by pragmatic Singaporeans - IF it is NOT frequent and prevalent, and if such population is relatively small, we will punish the culprits with NO 'reduced sentence' according to Singapore laws and that's that.
Interesting scenario that I hope we will NEVER have to deal with!
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