Iran publicly hanged a convicted murderer at the scene of his alleged crime on Thursday, the judiciary said, just two days after another public execution.
Most executions in Iran are carried out inside prisons. Public executions are generally reserved for offenses that caused particular outrage.
The latest hanging was carried out at dawn in the city of Kordkuy “at the scene of the crime and in public,” provincial judiciary chief Heidar Asiabi told the judiciary’s Mizan Online news website.
The condemned man had been convicted of killing “a couple and a young woman with a hunting rifle” late last year, Mizan reported.
On Tuesday, a man was publicly hanged in the southern province of Fars after being convicted of murdering a mother and her three children during a robbery.
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His wife, who was also sentenced to death, is to be executed in prison at a later date.
Cars drive on a motorway in southern Tehran on August 11, 2025. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)
Iran executes more people than any other country except China, according to human rights groups including Amnesty International.
The UN Human Rights Office urged Iran last month to stop using the death penalty, citing a “worrying surge in executions” that saw at least 612 people reportedly executed in the first half of this year.
Iran replied that it restricts its use of the death penalty to “only the most severe crimes.”
Murder, rape, adultery and some drug crimes are capital offenses in Iran.
The Islamic law offenses of “enmity against God” and “corruption on Earth” are also punishable by death.
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