Jordan Executes Prisoners After ISIS Video of Pilot’s Death

Jordan executed Sajida al-Rishawi, convicted in a suicide bombing plot, and Ziad al-Karbouli, a top lieutenant of Al Qaeda in Iraq, on Wednesday, according to the official news agency Petra.

On Tuesday, the Islamic State released a video showing the death of a Jordanian fighter pilot, First Lt. Moaz al-Kasasbeh, being burned alive inside a cage, a killing that was soon described as the most brutal in the group’s history.

Both prisoners had already been sentenced to death for terrorism offenses. Mr. Karbouli was accused as one of the planners of the 2005 hotel bombings in Amman that killed more than 57 people; Ms. Rishawi was the only one of four suicide bombers in that attack whose explosive vest failed to detonate.