abandoning its position as a ‘rare progressive voice on the death penalty in the region’ (Abuqudairi 2014). Two days after the 2014 executions, the University of Jordan released a survey claiming that 81% of Jordanians were in support of capital punishment. (Ibid). thus allowed for the state to easily renege on its intention to abolish capital punishment. 2017 saw the largest round of executions in the country for over a decade. 15 prisoners all Jordanian nationals, mostly convicted of murder or rape - were executed by hanging in March 2017. The resumption of executions was justi ed by the state in the context of rising crime rates, as well as support for the death penalty by the ‘vast majority’ of Jordanians (Abuqudairi 2014). Foreign Nationals Swaqa Prison, where most prisoners are executed After the publicised murder of captured Jordanian pilot, Maaz al-Kassasbeh by Islamic State, public opinion called for harsher punishments for terrorists, and in 2015, Jordan executed two men convicted of terrorism. Notwithstanding any political will to reduce the use of the death penalty, the lack of any amendments to the Jordanian Penal Code Large numbers of foreign nationals work in Jordan as migrant workers and the same issues relating to migrants’ human rights and access to justice etc. prevalent in the rest of the Middle East also occur in Jordan. However, the majority of executions and death sentences are handed out to Jordanian nationals. The best way to ensure foreign nationals are not sentenced to death is to remove capital punishment from Jordanian law. Acknowledgements With special thanks to Francesca Rigg for her assistance with this research in Jordan. Death Penalty Research Unit, University of Oxford For more research see: fi foreign-nationals.uwazi.io or tinyurl.com/mappingdeathrow