IRANIAN HANGED FOR DECADES-OLD MURDER

January 18, 2007: An Iranian convicted of murdering his brother and sister-in-law as well as their two children 27 years ago was hanged in the central city of Isfahan, the government newspaper Iran reported.
The man, identified as Houshang, burned to death the members of his family in their sleep after an argument by siphoning petrol into their rooms, lighting a blaze and then fleeing the building. (Sources: AFP, 18/01/2007)