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
MAY 6, 2010JordanDEATH PENALTYJORDAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH AFTER KILLING WIFE FOR REFUSING SEX
a 28-year-old Jordanian man was sentenced to death by the Amman Criminal Court
APRIL 14, 2010JordanDEATH PENALTYJORDAN: MAN HANDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
Judge Nayef Samarat of the Criminal Court in Jordan sentenced a 24 year old male driver, identified as
- MARCH 4, 2010JordanDEATH PENALTY
Jordanian Justice Minister M. Ayman Odeh said that shortly...
Jordanian Justice Minister M. Ayman Odeh said that shortly...
- MARCH 4, 2010JordanDEATH PENALTY
CRIMINAL COURT HANDS DEATH SENTENCE TO WOMAN FOR MURDERING MOTHER-IN-LAW
the Criminal Court in Jordan increased a 10-year prison term passed against a 39-year-old woman, identified as S. Q., for murdering her mother-in-law to a death sentence after a higher court ruled that the sentence was too light.
- FEBRUARY 25, 2010JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING FRIEND
judges Jarad, Atoun and Nahar of the Jordanian Criminal Court sentenced a man
- FEBRUARY 22, 2010JordanDEATH PENALTY
the Jordan Criminal Court sentenced a man to death...
the Jordan Criminal Court sentenced a man to death for robbing and murdering a store owner in Mahes in January 2007.
- FEBRUARY 7, 2010JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN: CASSATION COURT OVERTURNS DEATH SENTENCE
the Court of Cassation in Jordan overturned the death sentence of a women convicted of killing her mother-
- JANUARY 18, 2010JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDANIAN TO HANG FOR KILLING IRAQI WOMAN
a Jordanian court sentenced an unidentified man, 27, to death by hanging for setting fire to the house of an Iraqi woman in Amman in 2006.
- JANUARY 9, 2010CanadaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA: SUPREME COURT REVOKES DEATH SENTENCE AGAINST TWO
the Saudi Arabian Supreme Court annulled the death sentences of two high school pupils accused of murdering a fellow student, Munther Al-Haraki, in January 2007.
- JANUARY 1, 2010JordanDEATH 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.
- NOVEMBER 18, 2009JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, DOUBLE MURDER
Judges Atef Jaradat, Qassem Dughmi and Nahar Ghazo of the Amman Criminal Court in Jordan sentenced
NOVEMBER 12, 2009EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: FOUR JORDANIANS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUGS
a court in El-Tor, Egypt, sentenced four Jordanians to death for trying to smuggle hashish. The verdict has