After pilot's death, Jordan executes 2 prisoners

February 04, 2015 09:15

Jordan has executed two prisoners, including a would-be female suicide bomber from Al Qaeda.

The executions at dawn came just hours after Islamic State militants released a video that purportedly showed a captured Jordanian fighter pilot being burned alive in a cage.

Government spokesman Mohammed al-Momani said that two prisoners, Sajida al-Rishawi and Ziad al-Karbouli, were executed early Wednesday.

Image: Sajida al-Rishawi has been on death row for her role in a triple hotel bombing in Amman in 2005.

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