Jordan plans to execute on Wednesday an Iraqi woman linked to bomb attacks and other jihadists sentenced to death, following a posted Islamic State video showing a Jordanian pilot burned alive.

An unidentified Jordanian official said the death sentence on Iraqi would-be suicide bomber Sajida al-Rishawi will be performed at dawn on Wednesday.

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Rishawi was handed down the capital punishment for taking part in a string of fatal attacks in Amman ten years ago.

Islamic State militants sought to trade the life of captured Jordanian pilot, Lt. Maaz al-Kassasbeh, with Rishawi's release.

A Jordanian security source said the executions would begin with Rishawi, then convicted Iraqi Al-Qaeda agent Ziad Karbuli and others on death row that attacked Jordan.

Information Minister Mohammed Momani vowed Jordan's response to the apparent brutal killing of al-Kassasbeh will be "earth-shattering," while Jordan's army pledged to pull out all the stops in avenging the pilot's murder.

Momani, who also serves as spokesman for the Jordanian government, said that whoever doubted the resolve of his country's people would be proven wrong.

He pointed out the captured pilot did not belong to a particular Jordanian tribe or hail from any territory. The spokesman said al-Kassasbeh was the son of all Jordanians, who stand united.

Jordan's state television also broadcast that King Abdullah II would cut short a visit to the United States and come back home following the pilot's murder.

The king met with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in the capital on Tuesday before the monarch went to a meeting with the Foreign Relations Committee at the Senate on Capitol Hill.

One of the U.S.' staunchest allies in the Middle East, Jordan is an active participant in a US-led air campaign against Islamic State militants in Syria together with a number of other Arab countries. 

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