AMMAN: A Jordanian court sentenced a citizen to death on Sunday after he was convicted of killing three drug enforcement agents during a raid earlier this year.
The Jordanian state security court said, in a statement, that it “unanimously issued its final ruling on Sunday in the case concerning the martyrdom of three members of the anti-narcotics administration.”
It said the accused was found guilty of charges including “physically assaulting officials charged with enforcing the narcotics law, resulting in death... and consequently sentenced him to the most severe punishment, which is the death penalty.”
Jordan still sentences people to death, but there has been an effective moratorium on capital punishment for years.
The last executions in the kingdom were in 2017, when 15 people were hanged, 10 of them over terror-related charges.
