On Sunday morning, the State Security Court in Jordan announced its decision to execute 3 defendants in the bloody attack that took place on a church in the town of Hamoud in Karak Governorate last September, which claimed the lives of 9 people and injured dozens.
According to the Jordanian News Agency, the defendants were convicted of "a charge of jointly committing terrorist acts that led to the death of a person (repeated 9 times), and a charge of jointly committing terrorist acts using weapons and ammunition (twice)".
The court also attributed to them "possession of weapons and ammunition with the intention of using them in terrorist acts, conspiring with the intention to carry out terrorist acts using weapons, and promoting the ideas of a terrorist group, in accordance with the provisions of the law for the prevention of terrorism."