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
- OCTOBER 14, 2012JordanDEATH PENALTY
a Criminal Court in Amman, Jordan...
a Criminal Court in Amman, Jordan...
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012JordanDEATH PENALTYJORDAN: FATHER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING DAUGHTER ‘288 TIMES’
In Jordan, the Criminal Court sentenced a 49-year-old man to death for molesting
SEPTEMBER 23, 2012JordanDEATH PENALTYJORDAN: GIRL SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING HER STEPMOTHER
A Jordanian judiciary source said that the Jordanian Supreme Criminal Court sentenced a 26 year
JUNE 25, 2012JordanDEATH PENALTYJORDAN: DEATH SENTENCE ISSUED IN ROBBERY-MURDER
In Jordan, the Criminal Court has sentenced one man to death and another to 10 years in prison
- JUNE 12, 2012JordanDEATH PENALTY
the Jordan Criminal Court has sentenced a 31-year-old merchant...
the Jordan Criminal Court has sentenced a 31-year-old merchant...
- MAY 9, 2012JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING, MURDERING NEIGHBOUR
In Jordan, the Criminal Court has sentenced a 30-year-old man to death for raping and murdering a woman in Sweileh in January 2007.
- APRIL 30, 2012JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN: MAN TO HANG FOR RAPING, KILLING GIRLFRIEND
A Jordanian was condemned to death for raping and stabbing his teenage girlfriend to death
- APRIL 24, 2012JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN: BROTHERS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN TAFILEH MURDER
The Criminal Court in Jordan sentenced two brothers to death for murdering an educator in Tafileh
- MARCH 13, 2012JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
In Jordan, the Criminal Court sentenced a Jordanian to death and an Egyptian to 20 years
- JANUARY 1, 2012JordanDEATH 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 26, 2011JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDANIAN TO HANG FOR RAPING, IMPREGNATING AND KILLING DAUGHTER
a Jordanian was sentenced to death for raping and impregnating his 19 year old daughter then
- OCTOBER 23, 2011JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN MAN TO HANG FOR RAPING NINE-YEAR-OLD GIRL
a Jordanian man was sentenced to death for raping a seven-year-old girl while she was on her way to school in 2010.