Jordan swiftly responded to the brutal killing of one of its fighter pilots by ISIL, announcing the executions of two militants prisoners early Wednesday

Jordan swiftly responded to the brutal killing of one of its fighter pilots by ISIL, announcing the executions of two militants prisoners early Wednesday.

One of the convicts hanged, according to the Jordanian government, was Sajida al-Rishawi, a would-be suicide bomber whose release ISIL had previously demanded as part of a prisoner exchange. The other was Ziad Karbouli, a former top aide to the deceased leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

The execution came after Jordan vowed an "earth-shattering" response to avenge the burning alive of one of its fighter pilots Maaz al-Kassasbeh.
  
A security source said al-Rishawi and al-Karboli executions were carried out at Swaqa prison south of the capital Amman in the presence of an Islamic legal official.
  
Al-Kassasbeh was captured by ISIL when his plane went down in Syria in December. Rishawi, 44, was condemned to death for her participation in deadly attacks in Amman in 2005 and ISIL had offered to spare Kassasbeh's life and free a Japanese hostage -- who was later beheaded -- if she were released. Karboli was sentenced to death in 2007 on terrorism charges, including the killing of a Jordanian in Iraq.

The Jordanian revenge came hours after a harrowing video emerged online purporting to show the caged 26-year-old F-16 fighter pilot engulfed in flames. The video -- the most brutal yet in a series of gruesome recorded killings of hostages by ISIL -- prompted global revulsion and vows of continued international efforts to combat the extremist group.