AMMAN —
There are 219 inmates in Jordan on death row, according to Interior Minister
Mazen Al-Faraya, Ammon News reported on Sunday.
The minister, in
response to questions from MP Saleh Al-Armouti, said that there are 197 men and
22 women sentenced to death.
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The oldest death
row inmate was sentenced on June 29, 1976 and is still awaiting execution.
If a victim or
their next of kin renounces their private right against a death-row inmate, the
inmate receives a 15-year sentence instead of a death sentence, as per Article
4/b/1 of the General Amnesty Law, according to Faraya.
Lower House of
Parliament’s Legal Committee Rapporteur Ghazi Al-Thneibat was quoted by Jo24 as
saying that, since 2006, there has been a trend to freeze executions of those
on death row. He also said that the implementation of capital punishment has
been controversial ever since the Middle Ages, and is an issue Jordanians are
divided on. Thneibat pointed out that European countries have capital
punishment, as did most of the US states, while Japan and other countries still
freeze its implementation.
Some 100 countries in the
world have capital punishment, but, just like Jordan, tend to freeze the executions.
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