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2018-09-30 14:36
Three corrupt individuals in Iran handed death penalty: Judiciary
TEHRAN – Iran’s Judiciary spokesman announced on Sunday that the special courts on fighting economic corruption have in recent days convicted 35 individuals of corruption, among whom three were handed death penalty.
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2018-07-03 19:13
Iran reduces death penalty, life sentence against 1700 drug convicts
TEHRAN – Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi, the Tehran prosecutor general, announced on Tuesday that 1,700 sentences of narcotic-related cases have been commuted from capital punishment and life sentence to less severe forms of punishment.
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2017-10-10 21:06
Afghan girl’s murderer to receive death penalty soon
TEHRAN — The 17-year-old Iranian boy who had prosecuted for the abduction, sexual assault, and murder of the 6-year-old Afghan girl, Setayesh Qoreishi, has been handed down death penalty.
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2017-08-14 20:28
New drug death penalty bill to save 5,300 inmates on death row
TEHRAN – The Iranian parliament has passed a bill to its drug trafficking law that could commute the sentences of up to 5,300 inmates currently on death row for drug trafficking.
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2017-07-18 09:25
By Maryam Qarehgozlu
Could death end drug-related offences?
The Majlis (Iranian parliament) on Sunday approved the general outlines of a controversial bill proposing limitations on death penalty for drug offenders.
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2017-07-16 19:12
Iranian parliament votes to limit death penalty for drug traffickers
TEHRAN – The Iranian parliament approved a bill on Sunday to limit death penalty for drug offenders.
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2017-05-17 19:08
Cleric reveals pop star’s charity to spare convict from death penalty
TEHRAN – A cleric has revealed pop star Mohsen Chavoshi’s charity to help a convict escape the death penalty by paying part of the blood money to the family of a person murdered in a quarrel.
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2016-12-11 08:48
Death penalty does not have deterrent effect: lawyer
TEHRAN – An Iranian lawyer has said that capital punishment does not have a deterrent effect, urging the authorities to seek other forms of punishment to fight drug-related crimes.
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2016-10-08 21:40
Iran says may limit death penalty for drug traffickers to lords
TEHRAN – The secretary of Iran’s Human Rights Council has said Tehran may reconsider capital punishment for drug smugglers, limiting it to drug lords only, seemingly a setback from a tougher stance taken previously.
