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Capital punishment is legal in Jordan. The country had a moratorium on capital punishment between 2006 and 2014. The method of execution is hanging, previously shooting was the sole method. ==History== Between 2000 and the imposition of a moratorium in 2006 there had been 41 executions, either for murder, terrorism or sexual offences. In 2006 the Jordanian cabinet launched a plan to limit the number of capital offences from sixteen to ten. On 21 December 2014 eleven persons were hanged, all men which were convicted of murder in 2005 and 2006. These were the first executions since June 2006, 122 sentences of capital punishment had been handed out since.〔 Shortly before the executions Interior Minister Hussein Al-Majali had stated that capital punishment might be reinstated due to a major debate on the subject, and with the public believing that a recent rise in crime was caused by non-application of the death penalty.〔 The lifting of the moratorium was criticized by human rights organisations. On 4 February 2015, shortly after discovering Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh had been killed by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Jordan executed Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi and Ziad Khalaf Raja al-Karbouly. Both had been convicted of terrorist offences. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Capital punishment in Jordan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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