 Activists in last-ditch effort to save 19-year-old condemned to death for stabbing the man she was forced to marry as he assaulted her 
 
 Teenager who killed husband after he raped her is sentenced to death in Sudan 
 
 A 19-year-old Sudanese woman has been condemned to death by a court in Omdurman for stabbing to death the husband to whom she was forcibly married, who she says raped her with assistance of his family. The death penalty for Noura Hussein was confirmed by a judge on Thursday after her husband’s family rejected the possibility of financial compensation and instead asked for her to be executed. #JusticeForNoura @ENoMW @elizamackintosh pic.twitter.com/GEaaZD6ElE — Sodfa Daaji (@sodfadaaji) May 10, 2018 
 
 Hussein's legal team has 15 days to appeal. I knew then that I [would] be executed, leaving my dreams unfulfilled.” 
 
 The case, which once again highlights the issue of forced marriage and marital rape in a number of countries, is striking for its shocking details. He added that Hussein was abandoned not only by the law, but also by her family. “We are also calling on people around the world to sign the change.org petition in support of Noura,” said Tara Carey of Equality Now.
– Forced marriage and marital rape are under the spotlight once again, this time emerging from a case in Sudan. There, 19-year-old Noura Hussein was sentenced to death Thursday for the stabbing death of her husband, whom she says she was made to marry and who then raped her with the help of his family. The Guardian reports Hussein was married off at the age of 15 or 16 (a Change.org petition says that's merely when she was told she had to go through with the marriage), but she fled and holed up with an aunt for three years—until she was fooled into a visit to the home of her own family, who promptly returned her to the man she was made to marry. After less than a week with him, she says, his brother and two others held her down while he raped her, and the next day when he tried it again, she stabbed him and fled to her parents, who brought her to the cops. CNN notes the legal age of marriage in Sudan is 10, and that marital rape isn't against the law. Under Sharia, the husband's family could choose a pardon, financial compensation, or death for Hussein, per the Washington Post; they chose death. "When I left the court house the rapist's family were clapping with joy and had smug looks on their faces," a supporter who of Hussein's posted on Twitter. Hussein has plenty of people backing her up, and her cause has found its way online with a #JusticeForNoura hashtag and via the Change.org petition, which calls her actions self-defense. "It was a shocking moment" hearing she'd be put to death, Hussein told supporters. "I knew then that I [would] be executed, leaving my dreams unfulfilled." Her legal team has 15 days to file an appeal. (Marital rape isn't viewed the same as "normal" rape in many US states.)