Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 19 Irans State Supreme Court has upheld the execution sentence of a young man, a state-run news agency reported on Wednesday.
Iran Focus
Tehran, Iran, Apr. 19 Irans State Supreme Court has upheld the execution sentence of a young man, a state-run news agency reported on Wednesday.
The young man was only identified as 20-year-old Yadollah.
He was accused of stabbing to death an acquaintance over a financial dispute in October 2004 when he was a teenager, according to the news agency ISNA.
On Tuesday, ISNA reported that a court in Tehran sentenced 19-year-old Faraz A. to hanging. He was accused of murder.
Meanwhile, the state-run daily Iran reported that two young men, identified as Sourosh and Nader, were sentenced to hanging.
There was also a separate report that the execution sentence of another man, identified as 56-year-old Hamid-Reza B., was upheld by the State Supreme Court. He was accused of murdering a 70-year-old woman.
