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 PENALTYJORDAN 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, 2008JordanDEATH 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 PENALTYSAUDI 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.