Jordan has executed 15 prisoners, including 10 convicted of terrorism charges. The prisoners, all Jordanians, were hanged today in a jail south of the capital, Amman. <br/><br/>The five had been convicted of rape and sexual assault. It is the largest round of executions in Jordan in many years. The country had imposed a moratorium on capital punishment between 2006 and 2014.<br/><br/>The executed included those convicted for the attacks on the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad in 2003, on tourists at the Roman amphitheater in Amman in 2006, on intelligence officers in the Baqaa refugee camp in 2016 and the killing of writer Nahid Hattar.<br/><br/>Human rights group Amnesty International condemned the executions.