Authorities in the Islamic Republic have executed two more prisoners amid a significant rise in the use of the death penalty.
The prisoners, who were previously sentenced to death for alleged murder, were executed on Wednesday.
According to the HRANA human rights news agency, the execution of one prisoner sentenced to death for murder was carried out at Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad.
The prisoner has been identified as 32-year-old Vahid Nowruzi.
Nowruzi was involved in a fatal altercation two years ago, which led to his conviction and death sentence.
A female prisoner, convicted of murdering her husband in Tehran, was also executed. No further details have been released about her identity.
According to a report by Amnesty International, Iran has reached its highest level of death penalty executions in the last eight years, with the judiciary of the Islamic Republic executing 853 people in 2023 alone.
The report indicates that 481 executions - more than half of the total - were related to drug crimes.
This marks an 89 per cent rise in death penalties for drug-related offenses compared to 2022 when 255 people were executed.
The latest numbers also show a staggering 264 per cent increase compared to 2021, when 132 individuals were executed on similar charges.
Source:
iranwire.com, Staff, October 3, 2024
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