Jordan
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Retentionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 6
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · Murder and rape are capital crimes
- News items in the archive
- 270
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Jordan is classified as Retentionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 6 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 270 news items on Jordan, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- JANUARY 27, 2011JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN: DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED
a Jordanian court commuted the death sentence of Akram for fatally stabbing his cousin to 10 years imprisonment.
- JANUARY 1, 2011JordanDEATH 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, 2010JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN: DRIVER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING HIS FORMER EMPLOYER
the Criminal Court in Jordan, comprising judges Nayef...
- NOVEMBER 14, 2010JordanDEATH PENALTY
in Jordan, the Police Court sentenced Captain Ali Sardi to death for murdering a colleague.
in Jordan, the Police Court sentenced Captain Ali Sardi to death for murdering a colleague.
- OCTOBER 27, 2010JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN MAN GETS REDUCED SENTENCE FOR KILLING RAPED NIECE
a Jordanian man, Jamil, 41, was sentenced to death for killing his 16-year-old niece Abir...
- JUNE 10, 2010JordanDEATH PENALTY
'JILTED' JORDANIAN TO HANG FOR KILLING COUSIN
a Jordanian man said to have been jilted by his teenage cousin was sentenced to death for stabbing her to death during her wedding to another relative, a court official said.
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
- 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 PENALTY
JORDAN 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, 2008Saudi ArabiaDEATH 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 PENALTY
SAUDI 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.