Iran executes murderer in public

Wed, 27 Jan 2010

Tehran - A convicted murdered was hanged in public on Wednesday in central Iran, official news agency IRNA reported. The man had killed the deputy prosecutor of Isfahan city last year, and was hanged at the site of the murder, it said.

The death sentence was carried out after it was confirmed by the supreme court.

Iran usually implements executions inside prisons, but occasionally carries them out in public.

Murder, rape, armed robbery and drug trafficking of quantities in excess of 5 kilograms are among the crimes punishable by death.

Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/306072,iran-executes-murderer-in-public.html.