Jordan Executes Two In Response to ISIS Killing


international affairsFollowing the release of a video that showed Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh being burned alive at the hands of ISIS fighters, Jordan has executed two of their ISIS-affiliated prisoners.

Sajida al-Rishawi and Ziad al-Karbouli were killed at dawn on Wednesday.

al-Rishawi has been on death row for a period of time. al-Rishawi was involved in a three hotel attack in Jordanian capital city of Amman back in 2005. She was supposed to be a suicide bomber, but her bomb did not go off as planned.


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