Ten years in prison for honor killing is Jordan is pretty good ~ in some cases these "restorers of the family's honor" were given just 3-6 months. Some years ago there was a vote in Jordan to make honor killing illegal - and Jordanians voted against it - as it was seen as 'western interference' - and according to one Jordanian policewoman - who also voted against the measure to criminalize honour killing - said that it was very difficult for the men who had to carry out the honor killing - that these men were placed under enormous pressure by family and neighbours to go through with the act - and that her sympathies were with the men who were charged with this huge responsibility. [Economist - some time back]
AMMAN (AFP) — A Jordanian court sentenced a 19-year-old man to 10 years in jail for stabbing his sister to death in order to "cleanse the family honour," a judicial official said on Friday.
The defendant turned himself in to police after killing his 22-year-old sister last year for many unexplained absences from home, said the official who requested anonymity.
"The court sentenced the defendant to 15 years in prison for premeditated murder, but reduced the sentence to 10 years after the family dropped any legal claims" against him, the source said.
"The defendant killed his sister with knife stabs on April 5, 2009 to cleanse the family honour, because of her many absences from home," the official said. "He then turned himself over to the police."
Murder is punishable by death in Jordan but in so-called "honour" cases a court sometimes commutes or reduces sentences, particularly if the victim's family urges leniency.
Between 15 and 20 women are murdered in honour killings each year in Jordan despite government efforts to fight such crimes.
In September last year, the US-based Human Rights Watch urged Jordan to reform its penal code, which it says condones the murder of women as "honour crimes."
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