Judge asks killer who stabbed student to death for rejecting marriage proposal to be hanged on LIVE TV in Egypt
Mohamed Adel, 21, was found guilty of murdering his university classmate Naira Ashraf when she rejected his marriage proposal outside Mansoura University
He stabbed her several times in the neck and chest, in the Egyptian city
The court that sentenced Adel to death has asked for the death penalty law to be changed so that the murderer’s execution can be broadcast live
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An Egyptian court plans to broadcast live the hanging of a murderer who stabbed a student to death when she rejected his marriage proposal.
Mohamed Adel, 21, was found guilty of murdering his classmate Naira Ashraf of Mansoura University when she rejected him, with the court sentenced to death on July 6.
The court has now called for his execution to be broadcast live to prevent similar crimes in the future.
In the letter to Parliament, the court wrote: ‘With the broadcast, even if only part of the start of the procedure, the purpose of deterrence could be achieved, which was not achieved by broadcasting the conviction itself.’
Chilling footage shows Adel attacking Ashraf outside Mansoura University near the Nile Delta on June 20.
According to local media, she was about to take her final exams.
Chilling footage shows Adel attacking Ashraf outside Mansoura University near the Nile Delta on June 20. She was just about to take her final exams, according to local media
Naira Ashraf, a student at Mansoura University, was stalked and brutally murdered in June
Murderer Mohamed Adel, 21, was found guilty of murdering his classmate Naira Ashraf when she turned down his marriage proposal. An Egyptian court asks parliament to broadcast his execution live
Ashraf died on the spot when angry passers-by grabbed Adel while he was holding the knife and standing over her body, the video shows.
She was stabbed several times, including in her neck and chest, local media reported.
The knifeman had stalked the student and had decided to kill her after she rejected his marriage proposal, the court heard.
Mansoura’s courthouse provisionally approved the death penalty on June 28 and confirmed the sentence a week later.
An appeal blocked the verdict, which was made public on July 24. Now the court has asked the legislator to change the death penalty statute so that the execution can be broadcast live.
“We have 60 days left to challenge Adel’s death sentence,” said Farid El-Deeb, the defendant’s attorney.
El-Deeb, who worked as the chief defense attorney for the late ex-president Hosni Mubarak, is well known in Egypt.
The last time the death penalty was handed down was in 1998, when state television broadcast the executions of three men who murdered a woman and her two children at their home in Cairo.
In Egypt, the execution method for civilian convictions is on hold.
Ashraf was stabbed several times, including in her neck and chest, local media said