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
- MARCH 22, 2007JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN. DEATH SENTENCE ON FATAH ISLAM CHIEF
Shaker al-Absi, head of Fatah Islam, a group based in a Lebanese Palestinian refugee camp, has been
- MARCH 15, 2007JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN ORDERS FOUR IRAQI REBELS HANGED
a Jordanian military court sentenced Ziyad Karbouli...
- JANUARY 30, 2007JordanDEATH PENALTY
MAN RECEIVES DEATH SENTENCE FOR DOUBLE MURDER
according to the Jordan Times, the Criminal Court sentenced a 38-year-old man to death for the premeditated murder of his ex-wife and a man in Amman in 2004.
- JANUARY 1, 2007JordanDEATH 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.
- DECEMBER 21, 2006JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF BRITISH TOURIST
Jordan's State Security sentenced a Jordanian man of Palestinian origin to death for an attack on Western tourists in which he shot dead a British man and wounded five people.
- DECEMBER 7, 2006JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN. FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER US SHIP ATTACK
a Jordanian military tribunal condemned to death three Syrian nationals and an Iraqi in connection with a rocket attack on US warships that killed a Jordanian soldier.
- NOVEMBER 7, 2006JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN LAWYERS PROTEST SADDAM SENTENCE
Jordanian lawyers staged a one-hour strike to protest an Iraqi court's decision to sentence Saddam Hussein to death for crimes against humanity.
- OCTOBER 7, 2006JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN. DEATH VERDICT ON ISLAMISTS COMMUTED
Jordan’s top appeals court commuted the death sentence of two convicted Islamists over a millennium bomb plot.
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2006JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN. FAILED FEMALE BOMBER AND SIX OTHERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
a Jordanian military court sentenced a failed female suicide bomber and six others to death for planning attacks which killed 60 people in Amman in 2005.
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2006JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN. COURT REVOKES DEATH SENTENCE IN CHILD RAPE CASE
Jordan’s Court of Cassation repealed the death sentence against a 24-year-old man, who was convicted by the Criminal Court of raping an 8-year-old girl in Irbid in 2002, after her family dropped charges against him.
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2006JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN. THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR PLANNING TERRORIST ATTACKS
three militants were sentenced to death and a fourth was sentenced...
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2006JordanDEATH PENALTY
DEATH SENTENCES UPHELD IN JORDAN VALLEY MURDER
Jordan’s Court of Cassation upheld the death sentences passed by the Criminal Court against...