her.
The young woman, Fatema Akhter Sonali, who felt betrayed over the man's attitude after slitting her lover's throat, she cut
out his heart because she was curious to see how big hisheart was.
The judge read out Sonali's judgement on Monday in a packed court in the southwestern city of Khulna, Bangladesh, but she was sentenced to death in a Bangladeshi court on Tuesday.
Sonali acted out of revenge for the man's refusal to marry her and secretly kept recordings of both of them having sex,
prosecutor, Quazi Shabbir Ahmed said.
He said she had also found video footage of him having sex with other women on his laptop.
"It's rare for a woman to be sentenced to death. But her case was exceptional.
"She admitted to the court she killed her lover, Emdadul Haq Shipon, for refusing to marry her and for keeping a recording
video of their sexual intercourse in his laptop," Ahmed told AFP.
In her confession, Sonali said she spiked a soft drink with 20 sleeping pills and gave it to Shipon, a 28-year-old part-time lift attendant at a hospital.
When he fell unconscious, she bound his hands and feet before killing him by slitting his throat.
Sonali then cut open his chest and removed his heart.
"She told the court that she was curious to see how big his heart was.
She said a man must have a big heart to carry out such audacious crimes," said Ahmed.
Sonali committed the murder in March 2014 and can challenge the sentence in a higher court.
If her execution goes ahead she will be the first woman to be hanged in Bangladesh, according to Tipu Sultan, a deputy inspector general of prisons.