Jordan executes prisoners after ISIL murder of pilot

Jordan hanged two Iraqi prisoners today including a female in response to an Islamic State video showing a captured Jordanian pilot being burnt alive by the group. Islamic State had demanded the release of the woman, Sajida al-Rishawi, in exchange for a Japanese hostage whom it later beheaded. Sentenced to death for her role in a 2005 suicide bomb attack in Amman, Rishawi was executed at dawn, according to state television.

To chat to us about the latest development is journalist and political analyst Nikita Malick, based at Quilliam, a London counter-terrorism think tank. 

BIO: Nikita has written for the Huffington Post, Middle East Monitor, The National, Open Democracy, Standpoint, Carnegie, Al Jazeera, Daily Star, and others. Her research interests lie in counter-terrorism, political security, border regulation and arms control, and Islamist movements