Jordan's highest court has rejected an appeal by an Iraqi woman sentenced to death for her role in an al-Qaeda-led triple hotel bombing that killed 60 people, according to court documents obtained on Saturday.
Sajida al-Rishawi, 35, was planned to be one of the suicide bombers in the attack on November 9, 2005. She entered a hotel ballroom with her husband, both were wearing explosives belts. Her husband set off his belt, ripping through a wedding party in the hall.
Initially, al-Rishawi said in a televised confession that her own belt failed to detonate and she fled, but she later told her trial that she was an unwilling participant in the attacks and never tried to activate her bomb.
Jordan's appeals court said it "ratified" the military court's death sentence because al-Rishawi was "guilty beyond doubt of possessing explosives and having had the intention and the will to carry out terrorist attacks whose outcome is destruction and death".
The appeals court's decision is final, but it can be overturned by King Abdullah II.
