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
- JUNE 20, 2001JordanDEATH PENALTY
Jordan's criminal court sentenced two Egyptian nationals...
Jordan's criminal court sentenced two Egyptian nationals to death, including one tried in absentia, after convicting them of robbing and murdering a compatriot in Amman in December 1998
- JANUARY 29, 2001JordanDEATH PENALTY
A 24-year-old man, Bilal Mahmud, was sentenced to death...
A 24-year-old man, Bilal Mahmud, was sentenced to death by the Criminal Court after he was found guilty of killing and burning a woman, Kayan Salih, in Irbid on June 23, 2000
- JANUARY 1, 2001JordanDEATH PENALTY
Murder and rape are capital crimes
Murder and rape are capital crimes
- DECEMBER 9, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
The public prosecutor of the State Security Court,...
The public prosecutor of the State Security Court, Lt-Col Mahmud Ubaydat pressed several charges against Ra'id Muhammad Hasan Muhammad Hijazi, a former fugitive who had been sentenced to death in absentia by the State Security Court as a member of the Afg
- DECEMBER 7, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
Bilal Musa, convicted of robbing and murdering 11 people...
Bilal Musa, convicted of robbing and murdering 11 people in 10 separate crimes during a five-year span, was hanged at Swaqa prison at dawn
- DECEMBER 6, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
The State Security Court was to hold a retrial of Ra'id...
The State Security Court was to hold a retrial of Ra'id Hijazi, a member of the "Base" Organization led by Usamah Bin-Ladin
- DECEMBER 3, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
Judicial officials confirmed that Syria handed over...
Judicial officials confirmed that Syria handed over Ra'id Hijazi to Jordan
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
A military court sentenced six of the men to death...
A military court sentenced six of the men to death for plotting a bombing campaign against Jews and Christians during the Millennium celebrations at the start of the year
- JUNE 6, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
Iraq executed Dawud Sulayman al-Dalu, a Jordanian national...
Iraq executed Dawud Sulayman al-Dalu, a Jordanian national who was arrested in 1993 and was later sentenced to death by an Iraqi court for taking part in a plot against Iraq and its leadership
- JUNE 5, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
Ayman al-Majali, Jordan's acting Foreign Minister,...
Ayman al-Majali, Jordan's acting Foreign Minister, summoned the Iraqi envoy in Amman and "expressed the Jordanian government's protest against and astonishment at the execution of Jordanian citizen Dawud Sulayman al-Dalu without a prior announcement of th
- MAY 31, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
Muhammad Jaghamin was hanged at dawn in the Swaqa prison...
Muhammad Jaghamin was hanged at dawn in the Swaqa prison after a 10-month trial at the State Security Court
- MAY 20, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
The Syrian journalist Faysal Sha'bu, who was residing...
The Syrian journalist Faysal Sha'bu, who was residing in Jordan illegally and seeking political asylum, said he faced the death penalty if he decided to return to Syria
- MAY 8, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
Lawyers defending the 15 alleged followers of Moslem...
Lawyers defending the 15 alleged followers of Moslem militant Osama bin Laden questioned the legality of the prosecution case and demanded the dismissal of charges of plotting terrorist attacks
- APRIL 28, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
Bilal Musa and his wife, Susan Ibrahim, 31, who posed...
Bilal Musa and his wife, Susan Ibrahim, 31, who posed as sales staff or journalists to bluff their way into homes before robbing and killing the occupants, were sentenced to death by a court in Jordan
- APRIL 6, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
A human rights committee in Britain said that the Libyan...
A human rights committee in Britain said that the Libyan security forces had executed three of the eight Islamists that Jordanian authorities extradited to Libya in January 2000
- MARCH 30, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
Islamists in Jordan were outraged by the publication...
Islamists in Jordan were outraged by the publication of a poem titled "Joseph," written by poet Musa Hawamdeh
- MARCH 29, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
Jordan's Military Attorney General, Mamoun Khassawneh,...
Jordan's Military Attorney General, Mamoun Khassawneh, indicted 28 Arab nationals charged with planning bombing attacks on United States and Israeli tourists celebrating the New Year in Jordan
- FEBRUARY 25, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
The Court of Cassation ratified a March 1999 State...
The Court of Cassation ratified a March 1999 State Security Court death sentence given to two men for their roles in what have become known as the "Rabia and Shmaysani murders," which left 12 people dead
- FEBRUARY 22, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
The Criminal Court handed Bilal Musa, 34, his third...
The Criminal Court handed Bilal Musa, 34, his third death sentence in nine days, convicting him of killing a 28-year-old mother and her infant in March 1997
- JANUARY 1, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
Murder and rape are capital crimes
Murder and rape are capital crimes
- OCTOBER 6, 1999JordanDEATH PENALTY
On October 6, lawyer Saleh al-Armouti said Jordan's...
On October 6, lawyer Saleh al-Armouti said Jordan's state security prosecutor pressed new charges against detained leaders of the Palestinian militant group Hamas that could carry the death sentence
- SEPTEMBER 1, 1999JordanDEATH PENALTY
The Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Abdel Raouf al-Rawabdeh,...
The Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Abdel Raouf al-Rawabdeh, during a closed-door meeting at the end of September, approved a recommendation by the Justice Ministry to abolish Art
- AUGUST 1, 1999JordanDEATH PENALTY
In August, it was reported that King Abdullah II helped...
In August, it was reported that King Abdullah II helped Jordanian women win an important legal victory by securing the abrogation of a law which either excuses or imposes sentences of three months to two years on men who kill allegedly adulterous female r
- JULY 28, 1999JordanDEATH PENALTY
On July 28, two men were hanged in the desert kingdom
On July 28, two men were hanged in the desert kingdom
- JULY 27, 1999JordanDEATH PENALTY
On July 27, the High Criminal Court in Amman condemned...
On July 27, the High Criminal Court in Amman condemned to death Osama Al-Ozza and Muhammad Al-Hassar, two Jordanians both aged 25, for murdering a Saudi father, Saeed Al-Atwi, and his 20-year old son Jamal, at Ghamadan Park in Amman three years ago
- JULY 22, 1999JordanDEATH PENALTY
Jordan signed the letter, dated 22 July 1999, addressed...
Jordan signed the letter, dated 22 July 1999, addressed to the President of the Economic and Social Council, in which the retentionist countries dissociated from the Commission on Human Rights resolution 1999/61 on the question of the death penalty
- JULY 2, 1999JordanDEATH PENALTY
On July 2, a Jordanian man was beheaded in Saudi Arabia...
On July 2, a Jordanian man was beheaded in Saudi Arabia for smuggling drugs into the kingdom
- MARCH 15, 1999JordanDEATH PENALTY
On March 15, a military tribunal sentenced to death...
On March 15, a military tribunal sentenced to death by hanging Mohammad Jaghameen, 35, and Ahmad Subuh, 34, who remains a fugitive, for a killing spree that left more than 10 people dead in 1998
- MARCH 1, 1999JordanDEATH PENALTY
In March, Ahmad Najdawi, a well-experienced lawyer...
In March, Ahmad Najdawi, a well-experienced lawyer said that laws need comprehensive revision
- JANUARY 1, 1999JordanDEATH PENALTY
Murder and rape are capital crimes
Murder and rape are capital crimes