Human rights watchdogs and some Jordanian activists have been working towards the elimination of death penalty from Jordanian law book, knowing that since March 2006, no executions have been carried out, although there are 45 prisoners, waiting for their death sentences to be executed.

Director of the Correctional and Rehabilitation Centres Colonel Sharif Al Omari reported that he has no idea about the reason behind the abstaining from executions since 2006, stressing that the prison administration has not received any orders related to that matter.

The questions remaining here are: don’t murderers deserve the same fate that they gave to their victims? And won’t crimes increase in case death penalty is stopped in Jordan? Both of which are questions that activists need to think of deeply before standing in the face of such penalty.