The Interior Ministry made the announcement via official news agency . The ministry did not identify the men, but said all had been convicted of murder in either 2005 or 2006. All were Jordanian citizens and had exhausted all appeals, according to the ministry. None, it said, were convicted of politically motivated murder. A hangman's noose, from file. The men were executed at a prison in the south early in the morning. All were hung. The executions were spurred by lawmakers requesting action to curb rising crime rates. quoted a source at the prison as saying most were in their 40s. "Some of the prisoners asked to have their final words passed on their families, others asked only to smoke a cigarette," said the source.
The Interior Ministry made the announcement via official news agency . The ministry did not identify the men, but said all had been convicted of murder in either 2005 or 2006. All were Jordanian citizens and had exhausted all appeals, according to the ministry. None, it said, were convicted of politically motivated murder. A hangman's noose, from file. The men were executed at a prison in the south early in the morning. All were hung. The executions were spurred by lawmakers requesting action to curb rising crime rates. quoted a prison-system source as saying most were in their 40s. "Some of the prisoners asked to have their final words passed on their families, others asked only to smoke a cigarette," said the source.
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