Jordan’s Interior Ministry said the kingdom has hanged 11 people convicted of murder, the first executions to take place in the country in eight years.
The official Petra news agency quoted the ministry’s spokesman Ziad al-Zuabi as saying the 11 men, who were convicted in 2005 and 2006, were executed early on Sunday at a penitentiary in the country’s south.
In 2006, Jordan stopped carrying out the death penalty but recently, several lawmakers have called for it to be reinstated to curb increase in crime.
Since then, 122 have been sentenced to death in Jordan, including militants convicted of terrorism.
