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
- DECEMBER 18, 2007JordanDEATH PENALTY
Jordan voted against the Resolution on a Moratorium...
Jordan voted against the Resolution on a Moratorium...
- NOVEMBER 28, 2007JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN. DEATH PENALTY COMMUTED FOR AL-QAIDA MILITANT CONVICTED OF SLAYING A US DIPLOMAT
Jordan's military court commuted a 2004 death sentence against an al-Qaida
- NOVEMBER 5, 2007JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDANIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER IRAQ EMBASSY ATTACK
a military tribunal in Amman, Jordan, sentenced a Jordanian man to death for his role in the 2003 bombing of Jordan's embassy in Iraq, which killed 14 people.
- SEPTEMBER 30, 2007EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPTIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN JORDAN FOR MURDER
the Criminal Court in Amman, Jordan, sentenced Ahmad M., a 22 year old Egyptian man, to death after convicting him of murdering Midhat Ibrahim, 31, also an Egyptian, over JD200 in a deserted area in Wadi Seer in December, 2005.
- JULY 29, 2007JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN. KING COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCES OF SEVEN MILITANTS
Jordan's King Abdullah II commuted the death sentences of seven Islamic militants
- JULY 5, 2007JordanDEATH PENALTY
the Court of Cassation in Jordan annulled...
the Court of Cassation in Jordan annulled...
- JUNE 18, 2007JordanDEATH PENALTY
MAN HANDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR PREMEDITATED MURDER OF WIFE
according to the “Jordan Times”, the Criminal Court in Jordan sentenced a 37 year old man...
- JUNE 12, 2007JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN'S APPEALS CRT COMMUTES SENTENCES FOR ATTACK PLOTTERS
Jordan's Appeals Court commuted death sentences issued by a military court in September 2000 against Khader Abu-Hosher, and his coconspirator Osama Samar.
- MAY 27, 2007JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN SENTENCES TWO TO DEATH FOR MURDER
the Jordanian Court of Assizes sentenced two men to hang after convicting them of murder.
- MAY 23, 2007Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Jordan’s King Abdallah has commuted the death sentence...
Jordan’s King Abdallah has commuted the death sentence...
- MAY 7, 2007JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR TOURIST MURDER
Jordan's Court of Cassation upheld the death sentence by hanging of a Jordanian blacksmith for killing a British tourist, a judicial source said. Nabil Ahmad Jaaoura, 38, shot dead Christopher Stokes and wounded six others in Amman in September 2006
- APRIL 24, 2007JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDANIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BEHEADING FELLOW STUDENT
a male student who decapitated a colleague after he made sexual advances has been sentenced to death by Jordan's High Court, Al-Arab Al-Yom newspaper reported.
- 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...
- AUGUST 16, 2006JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN. ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY FOR SOME CRIMES SYMBOLIC AT BEST, FIDH
the Jordanian Government's decision to abolish the death penalty for some crimes is a positive but insufficient step, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) said as it released the preliminary findings of a fact-finding mission that visited
- AUGUST 1, 2006JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN. GOV'T INTRODUCES BILL TO CURB CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Human rights activists praised the government's approval of a draft law that would eradicate the death penalty for certain crimes but stressed capital punishment should be abolished completely.
- JULY 24, 2006JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN. GOVERNMENT RECONSIDERING DEATH PENALTY, SPOKESMAN
according to the “Jordan Times”, the government said it is planning to reconsider capital punishment in Jordan by limiting the cases to which the death penalty is applied, official sources said.
- JULY 9, 2006JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR DEMANDS DEATH PENALTY FOR HOTEL BOMBERS
the public prosecutor of Jordan's State Security Court demanded the death penalty for the suspected Iraqi female bomber Sajeda al-Rishawi and six other defendants over charges linked to the triple Amman hotel bombings on November 9.
- MARCH 22, 2006JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN. NINE MILITANTS SENTENCED TO DEATH
Jordan sentenced to death nine Islamist militants for their part in 2002 riots in the southern city of Maan in which seven people were killed.
- MARCH 14, 2006JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN. MAN EXECUTED FOR KILLING WIFE AND BABY
Jordanian authorities executed Adnan Ismail, a man convicted for murdering his wife and seven-month-old son, marking Jordan's third execution in four days.