Jordan Executes 15 Convicts, Including 10 on Terror Charges
One of the prisoners was convicted of a 2016 attack on an intelligence compound that killed five security personnel.
Jordan executed 15 people on Saturday, including 10 convicted on terrorism charges, government spokesman Mohammad al Momani said.
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Al Momani said those executed included one man who was convicted of an attack last year on an intelligence compound that killed five security personnel.
Another five were involved in an assault by security forces on a militant hideout in Irbid city in the same year that led to the death of seven militants and one police officer, while the rest were related to separate incidents that go back as far as 2003.
The five other executions were for rape and sexual assault.
Jordan restored the death sentence by hanging in 2014 after a moratorium on capital punishment between 2006 and 2014.
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