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. Government Spokesperson Nasser Judeh told reporters following the weekly Cabinet meeting that a legal committee headed by the minister of justice would review all the articles related to death penalty. There are currently 16 crimes punishable by the death penalty in Jordan. Minister of Justice Abed Shakhanbeh had reportedly also told a human rights delegation visiting the country two weeks before that Jordan was considering abolishing several articles concerning the death penalty from the Jordanian Penal Code.