Iran: Man Hanged at Khodabandeh Prison

According to the Iranian Students News Agency, the man was sentenced to death for killing three people of a family last year. The whole process from his arrest to the execution took only around half a year. The prisoner’s name was mentioned as M.H by the news agency. 

At least 110 people were executed in Iran in the first half of 2019; Only 37 of the executions have been announced by authorities or Iranian media. Iran Human Rights (IHR) could confirm 73 more through its sources. IHR only reports the unannounced executions if it could confirm those with two separate credible sources. Therefore, the actual number of executions may be even higher than reported.

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.