His Ex Wife Is A Billionaire

Chapter 587

Sentenced to death?

He was sentenced to death?

Ward felt as if a bomb had detonated inside his head, echoing with such ferocity that the words Ivan spat out afterward were lost to him. Clinging to the railing, he erupted in uncontrollable shouts.

“How could I possibly be sentenced to death? I’m a foreigner! Are you taking advantage of my ignorance of the law? Even if I were to be sentenced, it shouldn’t be by you. I should be extradited back home, to be tried by my own country’s courts! You can’t sentence me to death!”

Ivan looked on with a smirk that was not quite a smile, studying Ward’s ghastly pale face, twisted with malevolence like some specter from hell, and spoke with detached elevation, “You want to talk law, let’s talk. According to the ‘Diplomatic Criminal Jurisdiction Immunity Act, the criminal responsibilities of foreigners with diplomatic privileges and immunities are resolved through diplomatic channels. Ward, what makes you think you’re so special, with any right or status to claim such privilege? Besides, foreigners who commit crimes on our soil are subject to our laws, just like our own citizens. Sure, if you were some hotshot with diplomatic immunity, maybe you’d get a chance to squirm your way out. But you, Ward, are most certainly not.”

Ward shivered violently, “It can’t be.”

“Moreover, following the conclusion of this morning’s trial, Country T embassy has contacted us to say that they will no longer intervene in your case. They’ve handed over full jurisdiction to us. Since you don’t have immunity, by the principle of territorial jurisdiction, our courts have the right to try you according to the law. Now, the fact that you committed premeditated murder is established, we can legally sentence you to death!”

“I did kill, but I was threatened by that witch Elspeth! I was forced into a corner!”

Ward glared venomously at Elspeth, “I was merely an accomplice! Elspeth is the mastermind! It was she who ruined me. She’s the one who deserves to die!”

“Pfft!”

Elspeth, her eyes bloodshot, spat directly at Ward with no regard for decorum, covering his face with her disdain.

Although it was a grave setting, Elspeth, once the epitome of elegance as a tycoon’s wife, now resembled a rabid dog in her madness, almost causing the Ashbournes to burst into laughter.

“She’s really got some nerve, doesn’t she? Even now, she refuses to back down,” Evadne remarked, her eyes narrowing sharply.

“How else could she play the villain?” Thaddeus watched the two people fight in their cage, his icy gaze and thin lips shaped like the edge of a blade, “Let her rage. After all, it’s the last time she’ll get to.”

The cage containing Elspeth and Ward nearly erupted into a brawl, but the officers quickly subdued them.

Ivan couldn’t hide his disgust.

In his years of service, he had seen all kinds of rampant evil and deviance, but these two managed to rile him up to the point where he wished he could throw his gavel at them.

the verdict for the defendant Elspeth, charged with conspiracy to commit murder and

at the bench, her reddened eyes bulging as if they might pop out of their sockets.

putrid, as if a long–dead animal was buried right beneath her,

a hound, desperately seeking the

silence Erica, who had discovered the secret. The means were extremely cruel, the nature of the crime exceedingly vile! Therefore, the District Court for the District of Elmsworth sentences defendant Elspeth to 30 years in

shrank into herself.

be alive in

survive, couldn’t she? And would she

the façade, behaved well, and worked her connections in the shadows. Maybe after a decade, they’d let her out!

heart, but it was immediately

premeditated murder, with no intention to surrender herself to the authorities. To cover her tracks, she bribed and threatened witnesses, destroyed evidence, and eluded

rose with each word, fury reddening his eyes behind his glasses, “Thus, for solicitation of murder, premeditated murder, destruction of evidence, and obstruction of justice, she will receive consecutive sentences! The court sentences defendant Elspeth to death, strips her of all political rights for life, and orders the forfeiture of all her

Boom!

the weight of a crushing mountain toppling over her, the force of annihilation too great to withstand, and

Death, death, death!

a harrowing abyss of despair. She even clawed at

verdict was clear, its impact

daughter Nydia wept and embraced, and even the usually composed Suri discreetly dabbed away tears with her handkerchief.

of emotion, and Cassius, beside him, took a

phone vibrated in

and saw a message from Chasel. His heart skipped a beat as he tapped the screen to open the

got

quirked up in amusement, and he responded simply,

are you gonna make it up

I reward you? You didn’t lift a finger

been glued to the live stream from the courtroom since the crack of dawn, hurling insults at Elspeth till my fingers are about to fall off! If not for hard work, then for suffering,

seconds ticked by.

aren’t you answering

but with

That’s how you’re gonna play? Flipping

slipped through Cassius’s lips. [Reward? What would

me think about it. I’ll tell you

felt a lump in his throat, unexpectedly unsettled by the words

her face into Thaddeus’s chest,

has come at last, and it’s all thanks to you,” Thaddeus whispered

his own eyes were brimming with tears.