Iran Human Rights (IHR); January 25, 2019: A prisoner was hanged yesterday at the prison of Tabas, South Khorasan Province, Iran.
According to Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), on the morning of Thursday, January 24, at Tabas central prison. He was arrested in the summer of 2017 for murdering two people.
Ebrahim Ramezani, the judge of South Khorasan first branch criminal court, said: “the man was a young worker who killed the employer and his wife.” However, the identity of the executed prisoner was not revealed in the report.
According to Iran Human Rights annual report on the death penalty, 240 of the 517 execution sentences in 2017 were implemented due to murder charges. There is a lack of a classification of murder by degree in Iran which results in issuing a death sentence for any kind of murder regardless of intensity and intent.