Iran hangs six for murder
AFP, TEHRAN: Six people convicted of murder were hanged in Tehran's Evin prison yesterday, ISNA news agency reported.
"Six people sentenced to Qisas (retribution) were hanged this morning," judiciary official Esmatollah Jaberi told the agency.
He did not identify the convicts but said that some of them had murdered their spouses. The latest hangings bring to at least 133 the number of people executed in Iran so far this year, according to an AFP count based on news reports.
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