By Vinny Vella, The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)

A Levittown woman, through tears, pleaded for leniency Tuesday from a Bucks County judge as she awaited his sentence for third-degree murder.

Sammar Khan told Judge Jeffrey Finley that the last 10 years of her life had been dominated by physical, emotional and sexual abuse from her husband, whom her family had forced her to marry. Still, she said, she felt remorse for killing the man at Bristol Wharf in May 2023 , calling it a cross that she will bear for the rest of her life.

Finley sympathized with Khan, 42, but said her actions could not be excused, even by the guilty plea she entered earlier this year .

“That does not give you the lawful right to gun down an individual and execute them,” the judge said. “There is no justificatio

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