"I have heard the news but it doesn't bring me any comfort because nothing will bring back my husband," said Dragana Prodanovic Haines, the Croatian wife of aid worker David Haines who was kidnapped by IS and killed last year.
"I regret that he was not captured alive but at least he will not kill any more people," she told AFP by phone from Croatia, where she lives with her five-year-old daughter.
Senior military figures have said it is highly likely the Kuwaiti-British militant was killed in the drone strike on Thursday, though it has yet to be officially confirmed.
Prodanovic Haines said she had yet to receive any news from British police on the attack, but that death would "have been too soft a punishment".
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"I would have preferred that he be captured and put before a court as well as the families of all his victims," she said.
She welcomed the efforts of the Pentagon in tracking down the militant, but said she wished the same efforts had been deployed to save the hostages.
Addressing herself to the parents of Emwazi, she said she was not sorry for their son's death.
"I am only sorry that you lost your son when he transformed into a monster who has caused so much pain to numerous families the world over.