Iran Executions: Prisoner Hanged in Eslamabad-e-Gharb Prison

According to HRANA news agency, on the morning of Monday, April 30, a prisoner was executed at Eslamabad-e-Gharb Prison on murder charges. The prisoner was identified as A’zam Khazaei.
A close source told Iran Human Rights, “A’zam Khazaei had shot and killed his wife. His wife’s relatives encourage her to divorce A'zam and marry someone else because A’zam had been imprisoned twice before.”
The execution of this prisoner has not been announced by the state-run media so far.
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.