Jordan could become the first country to agree a prisoner swap with the genocidal Isis terror group, a government spokesman revealed yesterday.

Mohammed al-Momani said Jordan was “ready to release Iraqi prisoner Sajida al-Rishawi if the Jordanian pilot Lieutenant Muath al-Kaseasbeh is returned unharmed.”

Ms Rishawi is on death row in Jordan for her role in a 2005 al-Qaida attack on hotels in Amman that killed 60 people.

Isis demanded her release “within 24 hours” on Tuesday, warning that if she was not freed two captives — Mr Kaseasbeh, who was caught after his F-16 crashed near Raqqa on a bombing mission, and Japanese abductee Kenji Goto — would be killed.

Mr Momani made no reference to Mr Goto when making the offer. Hundreds of Jordanians have protested outside government offices this week urging the kingdom to agree to Isis’s demands.

Execution of mentally disabled man ‘cruel’

THE US state of Georgia has come under fire for executing a man with learning disabilities.

Warren Lee Hill was serving life in prison for killing his girlfriend when he received a death sentence for beating a fellow inmate to death.

But lawyers had argued that since he was “intellectually disabled” he should not face execution.

Challenges they filed forced stays of execution in July 2012, February 2013 and July 2013 but state and federal courts rejected their case and the Supreme Court declined to issue a further stay at 6.30pm on Tuesday. He was killed within an hour and a half of its ruling.

“The court has unconscionably allowed a grotesque miscarriage of justice,” said lawyer Brian Kammer.

“Georgia has been allowed to execute an unquestionably intellectually disabled man in direct contravention of the court’s clear precedent prohibiting such cruelty.”