AMMAN: Human rights groups took Jordan to task yesterday as the country ended an eight-year moratorium on the death penalty by hanging 11 men convicted of murder.
The men were executed at dawn in a prison some 70km from the capital, interior ministry spokesman Ziyad Zoobi was quoted as saying by the official Petra news agency.
Authorities said the men were all Jordanians convicted of murder, with no links to politics or extremism, in 2005 and 2006. A source in the prison system said the men were mostly in their 40s.
