After 18 years of being under the death sentence, two prisoners in Lamerd are released from execution
22-July-2020
Category: executions
Breathing in Confinement: Two prisoners who had previously been arrested and sentenced to death on murder charges in two separate cases, were released from prison after being pardoned by the victims’ families.
According to the ISNA news agency, with the consent of the blood owners, two prisoners were saved from execution while one of them had been under the death sentence since 2002.
The other rescued prisoner, had been sentenced to death in another case on charge of murder and since 2017 has been on death row in Lamerd Prison.
The head of Fars Province Dispute Resolution Council announced that over the last one year, 50 prisoners have been saved from execution in the Province.