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Execution of a prisoner in Hamadan prison

18-April-2020

Category: executions

Breathing in Confinement: On Wednesday morning, April 15, 2020, “4 times execution sentence” was carried out for a prisoner in Hamadan prison.

According to IRIB news agency, on April 15, 2020, in the morning, a prisoner who had previously been arrested on charges of murdering four members of a family was executed four times.

Hamadan Province Public Prosecutor said: “On April 21, 2015, 40 days after the crime, the murderer was arrested by the detectives of Hamadan Intelligence Office. He afterward was sentenced to “four times death” after being tried in Hamadan Criminal Court- Branch 1.  The sentence was later upheld in the Supreme Court and finally was approved by Chief Justice in December 2019.

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