A court has ruled that a man who stabbed a student to death after she refused his marriage proposal should be hanged on live Television in Egypt.
Mohamed Adel, 21, was found guilty of murdering his classmate at Mansoura University, Ms. Naira Ashraf when she turned him down his marriage proposal. The man has now been sentenced to death for the crime (July 6).
The court directed for a live broadcast in an effort to deter related crimes in the future.
‘The broadcast, even if only part of the start of proceedings, could achieve the goal of deterrence, which was not achieved by broadcasting the sentencing itself,’ the court’s letter to parliament read in part.
The man was filmed attacking Ashraf right outside Mansoura University located near Nile Delta in Egypt on June 20.
Ashraf was scheduled to sit for her final exams according to media reports.
She died on the spot and Adel was found standing over her body with a knife at hand. Ashraf was stabbed numerous times including on her chest and neck.
The man had stalked Ashraf and had decided to kill her following her rejection of his marriage proposal.
Initially, the court settled on a death penalty on June 28 and the sentence was confirmed just one week later.
The verdict was stalled by an appeal on July 24. Now the court is requesting parliament to change the law governing capital punishment to allow the execution to be aired on live television.
‘We still have 60 days to challenge death sentence against Adel,’ said the defendant’s lawyer Farid El-Deeb.
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