Prisoner Executed At Iran’s Shiraz Prison

According to Mehr News, on the morning of Sunday, January 21, a prisoner was executed at Adelabad Prison in Shiraz.

The prisoner, identified as Hossein Kh., was sentenced to death on the charge of murdering a man during a street fight. The murder occurred in August 2016, and the murder weapon was an axe.

According to Iran Human Rights annual report on the death penalty, 142 of the 530 execution sentences in 2016 were implemented due to murder charges. There is a lack of any classification of murder by degree in Iran which results in issuing a death sentence for all types of the murder, regardless of intensity and intent.