IRAN: SIX HANGED FOR MURDER, TWO SPARED

July 1, 2009: Iran hanged six people for murder, and two others were spared by the families of their victims at the last minute.
The execution of a ninth convicted murderer, identified as "Hossein R.", who was 16 at the time of his crime in 1992, was postponed on the order of judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi, the Etemad newspaper said.
Etemad quoted a judge as saying some of the six people put to death in Tehran's Evin prison were convicted of killing their spouses, without giving other details on their crimes or their identities.
The state run news site “young journalist’s club” also reported that one man identified as Alireza (28) was hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison convicted of murdering his friend. (Sources: Iran Human Rights, 01/07/2009; Reuters, 02/07/2009)