Jordan court gives 3 death sentences in church attack that killed 9
What's next: The ruling can be appealed and will automatically be reviewed by Jordan's Court of Cassation.
Jordan's State Security Court sentenced three men to death by hanging over the Oct. 23 attack on a Greek Orthodox church in Karak governorate that killed nine people during a funeral. The court convicted the men of terrorist acts resulting in death, weapons offenses, conspiracy to commit terrorist acts and promoting the ideology of a terrorist group. Authorities said the three attackers, identified as two Jordanian brothers and their brother-in-law, fled after the shooting and were arrested three days later after a shootout at an abandoned house in Karak. The assault, which also wounded 25 to 34 people according to the reports, was a rare attack on Jordan's Christian minority.