Jordan is a retentionist country. The country sentenced at least 16 individuals to death but carried out no executions in 2018.
While Jordan has ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in 1975, it has yet to ratify its Second Optional Protocol aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (ICCPR-OP2).
26 February – 1 March 2019: Honourable Dr. Mustafa Ramadan Yaghi, Lawyer, Member of the House of Representatives of Jordan, Member of the Committee on Tourism and Ruins, PGA Member, attended the 7th World Congress against the Death Penalty, organized by Ensemble contre la peine de mort in Brussels (Belgium).
7 May 2018: Hon. Taghreed Hikmat, PGA Member, shared her expertise and the perspective of Jordan, a Muslim-majority country, with Indonesian parliamentarians on the occasion of consultations on the Indonesia Judicial System, Penalties and Human Rights in the Reformed Draft Criminal Code organised by PGA and partner ECPM in Jakarta.
29 November 2017: PGA organized a side-event to its 39th Annual Forum in Milan (Italy), entitled “Moving Away from Capital Punishment in Asia”. The event focused on the issues and arguments particularly relevant to the abolitionist movement in Asian countries. This gave the opportunity to PGA Member Hon. Taghreed Hikmat to share her experience with fellow Asian parliamentarians. Her powerful statement against capital punishment as both a parliamentarian and a former judge made a strong impression on all attendees.
6 November 2017: PGA, with the cooperation of the Coalition of Women MPs to Combat Violence against Women – Jordan, organised a Parliamentary Roundtable on Strengthening the Rule of Law, with a special focus on the abolition of the death penalty, in the Senate of Jordan. Members of both Houses of the Jordanian Parliament attended the event and H.E. Faisal al-Fayez, President of the Senate, opened the discussions. MPs from Iraq, Malaysia, Pakistan and Switzerland shared their expertise as did a number of representatives of the Jordanian civil society.