Iran Executions: Prisoner Hanged in Mashhad Prison

According to a report by Khorasan Newspaper, on the morning of Monday, July 16, a prisoner was executed at Mashhad Prison. The prisoner, identified as GholamAli, 41, was convicted of murder during a fight at a wedding.

According to the source, the prisoner was on the run for five years and was finally arrested and sentenced to death in 2014.

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.