Jordan hangs 11 men after eight-year death penalty moratorium

AMMAN: Jordan executed 11 men convicted of murder by hanging on Sunday, the interior ministry said, as it ended an informal eight-year moratorium on the death penalty.

"Eleven criminals convicted in difference cases of murder were executed at dawn," the official Petra news agency quoted a ministry spokesman as saying.

Jordan´s last previous executions were in June 2006. (AFP)