28 December 2017 :

The Court of Cassation upheld a Criminal Court ruling sentence a man to death after convicting him of murdering two people in Zarqa in 2012, a senior judicial source said.
The defendant was convicted of shooting to death a man and his son over a dispute regarding a marriage bid and attempting to murder a second son in Zarqa and was handed the maximum sentence.
The higher court also upheld the Criminal Court’s ruling ordering the defendant to pay JD108,000 in compensation for the victims’ family.
Following a review of the case by the Court of Cassation, the senior judicial source told The Jordan Times, the five-judge tribunal concluded that the Criminal Court proceedings were accurate and the defendant received the appropriate punishment.

19 October 2017 :

A 27-year-old man was sentenced to death by the Criminal Court after being convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering a Syrian child in an Amman neighbourhood in July.
The defendant stood motionless while hearing the presiding judge read the conviction and verdict, according to a senior judicial source.
“The judge asked the defendant if he made a settlement with the victim’s family and his answer was no. So the judge sentenced him to death and he had no reaction,” the judicial source said.
The court found the defendant guilty of murdering a seven-year-old boy on July 6 to conceal his sexual assault after luring him to a deserted building in the Nuzha neighbourhood.
A few days later, a cleaning employee found the victim’s body unclothed and with his throat slit.
The verdict will automatically be reviewed by the Cassation Court within the next 30 days.

13 October 2017 :

A Bengali housemaid was sentenced to death by the Grand Criminal Court after being charged with the premeditated murder of an old couple in March.
The housemaid was working for an 84-year-old man and his 81-year-old wife, before killing them with severe blows to the head using an axe in their Irbid home.
After committing her crime, the housemaid set fire to the couple’s bedroom, where she killed them, in an attempt to confuse forensics and make them believe that they had been burnt alive.
She then cut off the electricity supply, locked herself in the bathroom and threw away the key, and screamed for help through the window.
Investigators concluded that the 25-year-old offender committed her crime after becoming fed up with serving her employers because of their old age, and wanting to return to her country.

03 October 2017 :

A Jordanian court has sentenced a man to death for killing two people and injuring others in a crime that took place in 2013 in Zarqa, central Jordan.
The court found the man guilty of premeditated murder. By Jordanian Law, the defendant will be hanged for his crime.
The offender had killed a 50-year-old father and his son, and shot and injured the man’s daughter, after rejecting his marriage proposal.
After introducing himself to the family and offering to help the woman pay off her tuition fees, the defendant was rejected by the family.
He retaliated by posting pictures of the woman on his social media pages.
After the woman filed a complaint against him, he sneaked into her family home and committed his crime.

24 March 2017 :

The Criminal Court sentenced a woman to death after convicting her of murdering her husband in Balqa governorate, in May 2014.
The tribunal found the defendant guilty of stabbing her husband, who is also her cousin, 36 times in the chest with a kitchen knife while he was sleeping at their home, on May 31.
Court transcripts said that the defendant “fell in love with another man and decided to get rid of her husband”.
On the day of the murder, the court added, “the defendant waited until her husband went to sleep, then stabbed him repeatedly with a knife”.
“The defendant then rushed to her family, who lives in the same building, and started screaming and yelling that two thieves had entered their homes, killed her husband, and raped her,” the court verdict added.
However, investigators concluded that she was the prime suspect in the case, the court verdict stated, adding that, during questioning, “she confessed to the murder”.
Investigators also relied on criminal lab results which indicated the woman was not sexually assaulted as she claimed, the senior judicial source said.
Upon checking her mobile phone records, investigators further concluded that “the woman was involved in an extra-marital affair”, according to the court verdict.
The verdict will be automatically reviewed by the Cassation Court within 30 days.

01 February 2017 :

04 December 2017 :

Jordan's state security court has convicted five Syrians of helping Islamic State militants carry out a 2016 car bomb attack that led to the closure of the Syrian-Jordanian border.
The court on December 4 imposed the death penalty on one defendant and sentenced three to life in prison. A fifth was sentenced to two years in prison.
The cross-border attack, launched from near the Rukban border camp for displaced Syrians, killed seven Jordanian border guards. In response, Jordan sealed the border.
Judge Mohammed Afif says the defendants collected information about Jordan's military positions on the border for IS. He says four admitted receiving monthly payments from IS.
The judge says the defendant who was sentenced to death had filmed the attack on his mobile phone and given the footage to IS.

06 March 2017 :

07 February 2017 :

03 May 2018 :

the Human Rights Committee completed its consideration of the fifth periodic report of Jordan on its implementation of the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Presenting the report, Saja Majali, Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United Nations Office at Geneva, said that since the presentation of its fourth periodic report, many changes had taken place in the region which had had serious ramifications for Jordan. With regard questions raised by experts on the death penalty, the delegation emphasised that Jordan was considered a country that strived to promote human rights. It had taken many measures to protect fundamental freedoms and to ensure that national legislation was in line with ratified international human rights instruments. The Criminal Code imposed penalties for crimes, one of them being the death penalty. It deterred crimes from being committed. That penalty and its implementation were compatible with international texts. Indeed, the Covenant stipulated that the death penalty should be confined to the most serious crimes. The application of the death penalty in Jordan could not take place in an arbitrary manner. It could only be imposed on individuals above the age of 18, and it could not be applied to pregnant women or to women who had just given birth. The death penalty was no longer applied to drug-related crimes. According to a recent study, 81 per cent of the Jordanian population supported the retention of the death penalty.