Amman, Jordan ? A court sentenced an Iraqi woman to death Thursday for her role in an al-Qaida-led triple hotel bombing that killed 60 people in Jordan’s worst terror attack ever.

Sajida al-Rishawi, 35, was intended to be one of the suicide bombers in the Nov. 9 attack. She entered a hotel ballroom with her husband, both strapped with explosives belts. Her husband set off his own belt, ripping through a wedding party in the room.

Initially, al-Rishawi said in a televised confession that her own belt failed to detonate and she fled. But she later told her trial that she was an unwilling participant in the attacks and never tried to set off the suicide bomb.

Al-Rishawi was one of seven defendants in the case, but the other six were still at large and tried in absentia. Like al-Rishawi, the six also were sentenced to death by hanging. Al-Rishawi is the first woman sentenced to execution in Jordan on terrorism charges.