Jordan
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- constitutional parliamentary monarchy
- CONSTITUTION
- January 1, 1952, amended several times
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on Islamic law and French codes; review of legislative acts by a special High Court
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral, Senate (Majlis al-'Umma) and House of Representatives (Majlis al-Àauan)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Court of Cassation, Supreme Court
RELIGIONS
majority Muslim, minority Christian
From the country
- JULY 13, 2009JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDANIAN TO HANG FOR US DIPLOMAT'S MURDER
a military tribunal in Jordan sentenced Jordanian national Moamar al-Jaghbir to death by hanging for the 2002 murder of US diplomat Laurence Foley, a judicial official said.
APRIL 27, 2009JordanDEATH PENALTYJORDAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE AND MURDER
a Jordanian man was sentenced to death by hanging for raping a teenaged cousin and
APRIL 21, 2009JordanDEATH PENALTYJORDAN: 45 PEOPLE ON DEATH ROW
There are currently 45 people on death row in Jordan, including five women, mostly
APRIL 5, 2009JordanDEATH PENALTYJORDAN: EXPERTS PROPOSE DEATH PENALTY ANNULMENT IN STATE SECURITY CASES
the death penalty will be abolished in Jordan for all crimes except premeditated murder
- JANUARY 19, 2009JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING HUSBAND
a Jordanian woman, 31, was sentenced to death by the criminal court for murdering her husband, a judicial official said.
- JANUARY 1, 2009JordanDEATH PENALTY
Murder, rape, terrorist activist and arms and drugs-trafficking are capital crimes.
Murder, rape, terrorist activist and arms and drugs-trafficking are capital crimes.
- OCTOBER 30, 2008JordanDEATH PENALTY
anti-death penalty campaigners are urging Arab governments to rethink their positions on state executions in the run up to a key vote in the United Nations
anti-death penalty campaigners are urging Arab governments to rethink their positions on state executions in the run up to a key vote in the United Nations
- JUNE 18, 2008JordanDEATH PENALTY
Jordan's military court upheld a death sentence...
Jordan's military court upheld a death sentence...
- MAY 21, 2008JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN COMMUTES EIGHT AL-QAEDA DEATH VERDICTS TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT
Jordan's State Security Court (SSC) commuted the death penalty passed on eight al-Qaeda-linked suspects to life imprisonment, judicial sources said.
- APRIL 25, 2008Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OBTAINS SECRET VIDEO SHOWING HORROR OF BEHEADING
Amnesty International received secretly filmed grisly footage of a man being beheaded in Saudi Arabia.
- APRIL 17, 2008Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA EXECUTES JORDANIAN FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
the Saudi Arabian Interior Ministry says a Jordanian man was beheaded after
- JANUARY 1, 2008JordanDEATH PENALTY
Murder, rape, terrorist activist and arms and drugs-trafficking are capital crimes.
Murder, rape, terrorist activist and arms and drugs-trafficking are capital crimes.