Jordan Executes Two Prisoners After Islamic State Releases Video Showing Pilot Being Burned Alive

Story by the Associated Press; curated by Oliver Darcy.

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AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — A Jordanian government spokesman says Jordan has executed two prisoners, including a would-be female suicide bomber from al-Qaida.

#Breaking: #Jordan has executed Sadjedah al-Rishawi and Ziyad al-Karbouli - State TV pic.twitter.com/ag7O5QsOr9

— Zaid Benjamin (@zaidbenjamin) February 4, 2015

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

#Jordan | State TV: #Amman has executed Sajida al-Rishawi & Al-Qaeda member Ziyad al-Karbouli pic.twitter.com/399eMU0Wy0

— Zaid Benjamin (@zaidbenjamin) February 4, 2015

Jordan vowed a swift and lethal response.

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

Al-Rishawi has been on death row for her role in a triple hotel bombing in the Jordanian capital Amman in 2005 that killed dozens.

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