According to rights groups, Iran executes more people every year than any other country except China. (File)
Tehran:
Iran carried out a rare public execution of a man on Monday over the murder of a lawyer two years ago, state media reported.
“The death sentence against the murderer of a lawyer was carried out in public this morning in the city of Shahroud” in the northern province of Semnan, the judiciary website Mizan Online said.
The official IRNA news agency said the man was a 20-year-old who confessed to being hired by a gang to kill the lawyer, without giving further details.
Monday’s execution was carried out in accordance with the Islamic Sharia law of “retaliation.”
Public executions are relatively rare in Iran, where almost all death sentences are carried out in prisons, usually by hanging.
Iran executes more people every year than any other country except China, according to rights groups including Amnesty International.
On Wednesday, authorities in central Iran executed a male fortune teller for raping and sexually abusing his clients.
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