On Sunday morning, November 15, 2026, Jordan’s State Security Court sentenced three defendants to death for their involvement in the terrorist act carried out on October 23 last year in the town of Hamoud, in Karak Governorate.
The court’s ruling came after all three defendants were convicted on a series of serious criminal charges related to the attack, including: “jointly committing terrorist acts resulting in the death of a person (repeated nine times), jointly committing terrorist acts using weapons and explosives (repeated twice), jointly possessing weapons and explosives with the intent to use them in terrorist acts, conspiring to commit a terrorist act using weapons, and promoting the ideology of a terrorist group.”
The court also convicted one of the perpetrators of an additional offense: providing money to financially support terrorist acts, under the provisions of the laws on combating money laundering and terrorist financing and on preventing terrorism.
It is worth noting that rulings by the State Security Court involving the death penalty are subject to appeal and are automatically referred by law to the Court of Cassation for review.
