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 4, 2004JordanDEATH PENALTY
A 19-year-old, named only as Ahmed A was sentenced...
A 19-year-old, named only as Ahmed A was sentenced to death in Jordan after killing a 40-year-old German woman in September 2003 and then having sex with her corpse before stealing her money, the Jordan Times newspaper said the defendant started crying wh
- MARCH 1, 2004JordanDEATH PENALTY
A 24-year-old woman, convicted of murdering two children...
A 24-year-old woman, convicted of murdering two children in March 2002, was executed at dawn, in Jordan
- MARCH 1, 2004JordanDEATH PENALTY
a Jordanian woman convicted of murdering two children was hanged
a Jordanian woman convicted of murdering two children was hanged
- FEBRUARY 25, 2004JordanDEATH PENALTY
According to "Jordan Times", Khalid H, 36, was sentenced...
According to "Jordan Times", Khalid H, 36, was sentenced to death by the Criminal Court in Jordan after he was pronounced guilty of murdering a child in Zarqa in April 2002
- FEBRUARY 11, 2004JordanDEATH PENALTY
According to
According to "Jordan Times", the Court of Cassation ratified a July 2003 Criminal Court ruling sentencing Ibtisam H
- JANUARY 20, 2004JordanDEATH PENALTY
Jordan's state prosecutor, Mahmud Obeidat, called for...
Jordan's state prosecutor, Mahmud Obeidat, called for the death penalty for 11 people on trial over the murder of Laurence Foley, a US Agency for International Development official, in 2002
- JANUARY 13, 2004JordanDEATH PENALTY
A spokesman for the London-based Islamic Observation...
A spokesman for the London-based Islamic Observation Centre [IOC] said that Jordanian security forces arrested and detained eight Libyan Islamists living in Jordan and that they intend to deport them to Libya
- OCTOBER 23, 2003JordanDEATH PENALTY
According to Jordan Times, two brothers, convicted...
According to Jordan Times, two brothers, convicted of the premeditated murder of a Jerash man in October 2001, were executed at Swaqa prison
- OCTOBER 8, 2003JordanDEATH PENALTY
See under 'The Death Penalty For Violent Crimes' of...
See under 'The Death Penalty For Violent Crimes' of the same date
- OCTOBER 8, 2003JordanDEATH PENALTY
An Iraqi and his Jordanian accomplice convicted of...
An Iraqi and his Jordanian accomplice convicted of murdering a friend in January 2001 over a loan reimbursement, were executed at dawn at the Swaqa prison south of Amman, Jordan
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2003JordanDEATH PENALTY
Three men were sentenced to death by a Criminal Court...
Three men were sentenced to death by a Criminal Court in Jordan for robbing and murdering a jewellery store owner in Irbid in May 2000
- AUGUST 26, 2003JordanDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International slammed the execution in Jordan...
Amnesty International slammed the execution in Jordan of Jamal Darwish Fatayri