Complex sentence: Originally, it was proposed to trade him and a kidnapped Japanese journalist, Kenji Goto, for Sajida al-Rishawi, a jailed suicide bomber in Jordan, but Goto was later beheaded, and al-Kaseabeh was burned alive.
Split into simpler sentences: Originally, it was proposed to trade him and a kidnapped Japanese journalist, Kenji Goto, for Sajida al-Rishawi, a jailed suicide bomber in Jordan. However, Goto was later beheaded, and al-Kaseabeh was burned alive.