Jordan: Further information on Death penalty

Index Number: MDE 16/007/2001
Date Published: 4 October 2001
Categories: Jordan, Middle East And North Africa

The four men were hanged on 4 October 2001 at Swaqa Prison outside the capital Amman. They were convicted in May 1995 of murdering four people and the attempted murder of five others in the ‘Udwan Mills area, northeast of Amman.