Jordan Penal Code Overview: Punishments for Various Offenses
Jordan's penal code details punishments for different offenses such as murder, assault, intentional harm, negligence causing death, defamation, and document tampering. Penalties include imprisonment with hard labor ranging from five years to fifteen years, and fines up to JD50. Specific articles outline consequences for each crime, ensuring justice and accountability within the legal system.
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Jordan penal code Where to classify? Article (326) Any person who willfully kills a person shall be punished by imprisonment for fifteen years with hard labor.
Jordan penal code Where to classify? Article (330) Whoever assaults any person by striking or injuring him/her using a tool that should not cause death or gives him/her harmful substance and does not intend to kill him/her, although the victim died as a result of such assault, the perpetrator shall be punished by imprisonment with hard labor for a period not less than five years.
Jordan penal code Where to classify? Article (333) Whoever intentionally assaults a person through beating or injuring or harming him/her by any effective act of violence, and the assault resulted in an illness or that the victim is prevented from carrying out the duties of his/her work for a period more than twenty days, he/she shall be punished by imprisonment from three months to three years.
Jordan penal code Where to classify? Article (343) Whoever causes the death of a person due to negligence or lack of due care or regard for laws or regulations, he / she shall be punished by imprisonment from six months to three years.
Jordan penal code Where to classify? Article (358) Whoever defames another person using one of the means stipulated in article (188), he / she shall be punished by imprisonment from two months to one year.
Jordan penal code Where to classify? Article (222) Any person who intentionally conceals or destroys a document or any other paper regardless of its type; or marred it to the extent it is rendered illegible or made knowledge of truth not possible through it, and if he / she did so knowing that such document is necessary in any judicial proceeding aiming at banning the use of such document as an evidence, he / she shall be punished by imprisonment not to exceed one year or a fine not to exceed fifty dinars (JD50) or both penalties.
Jordan penal code Where to classify? Article (472) Whoever commits the following shall be punished by imprisonment of not more than a week and a fine not exceeding five dinars (JD5): 1. Leaves a domestic pet he/she owns with no food, or severely neglects such animal. 2. Fiercely beats, tortures, or overloads a pet or domestic animal. 3. Operates an animal incapable of work due to illness, age, or injury creating a wound or handicap.
Jordan penal code Where to classify? Article (170) Any state official or person seconded to perform a public service either through election or appointment and any other person assigned to perform an official function such as an arbitrator or an expert, seeks or accepts for himself or on behalf of another a gift, a promise or any other benefit to perform his / her duty shall be punished by imprisonment for no less than two years and a fine equal to the value of the item he / she asked for or accepted.
