Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - The execution early today of 15 death row prisoners, ten of them were convicted of terrorism, is a clear message to anyone "trying to tamper with" the Kingdom's security, said Amman Attorney General, Judge Ziad Dmour.

The convicts were put to death by hanging at Swaga Correctional and Rehabilitation Centre at dawn Saturday, said State Minister for Media Affairs, Mohammed Momani.

"This is the inevitable fate of anyone committing a vicious criminal act", Dmour told Petra in an interview, adding that the execution of "the criminals would achieve prevention and have a positive impact on the families of their victims".

Momani, who is also the government's official spokesperson, said the 10 terrorism convicts included five members of the "Irbid terror cell", the gunman who carried out the attack at the General Intelligence Department's office near Baqaa refugee camp, the shooter who killed columnist Nahed Hattar at the entrance of the Palace of Justice, the perpetrator of an attack on public security personnel in Samma, near Irbid, the convict in the bombing at the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad in 2003, and the man who carried out an attack at the Roman Amphitheater in Amman in which a British tourist was killed.

The other five were found guilty of committing "heinous" crimes, including premeditated murder and "brutal sexual assaults on immediate relatives".

The death sentences were upheld by the Court of Cassation, the highest judicial authority in the Kingdom.