Police in Iran execute five people for drug smuggling
Five people were executed to death by Iranian police on Monday for violent drug smuggling in the south of the nation, according to the court. According to Mojtaba Ghahramani, Chief Justice of the southern province of Hormozgan, the prisoners had been found to be "all criminals and armed drug smugglers" and had received death-by-hanging sentences upheld by Iran's highest court. He said, "The sentences of the aforementioned were executed this morning in Bandar Abbas and Minab prisons." With the most recent hangings, eight individuals have been hanged for drug smuggling in less than a week. Following UN warnings about the "frighteningly" high number of executions in the nation, the judiciary killed three drug cartel defendants on Wednesday. Human rights organizations, notably Amnesty International, claim that Iran kills more people each year than any other country outside China. In a rare conviction for desecrating the Quran and insulting the Prophet M...