Seven receive death sentence for Jordan hotel bombings

Seven people have been sentenced to death for the triple hotel bombings that killed 60 people in Jordan’s capital last November.

Among those condemned to die was a 35-year-old Iraqi woman, Sajida al-Rishawi, who confessed on Jordanian television shortly after the blasts that she intended to carry out a suicide attack on one of the Western hotels.

Six others were sentenced in abstentia, and remain at large.