Bucks County Court Judge Jeffrey Finley told Sammar Khan there was no legal justification for her shooting and killing her husband. Read more TYGER WILLIAMS / Staff Photographer

by Vinny Vella Published Sept. 30, 2025, 3:28 p.m. ET

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

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