Iranian woman stoned to death for murder

An Iranian woman, sentenced to death for murder and adultery, was stoned to death todayin Tehran's Evin prison, a judiciary source…

An Iranian woman, sentenced to death for murder and adultery, was stoned to death todayin Tehran's Evin prison, a judiciary source said.

Iran's courts had recently found Maryam Ayoubi (30) guilty of murdering her husband with the help of her cousin.

She was also sentenced to 100 lashes, the source said, without saying whether she had been whipped before her execution.

Her husband was murdered last year in eastern Tehran, in the Narmak district.

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Adultery is punishable in Iran by stoning to death, according to Islamic law, or Sharia, which has been in force since the country's 1979 Islamic revolution.

AFP