TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has hanged a young woman who was convicted of murder when she was a minor, her lawyer said Saturday.
Authorities executed the 23-year-old woman Friday without informing her lawyer or allowing the family to be present, said the lawyer, Mohammad Mostafaei. She was 17 at the time the crime was committed, in 2003.
Iran executes more juvenile offenders than any other nation — eight last year and 42 since 1990, according to Amnesty International. The prisoner executed Friday, Delara Darabi, initially pleaded guilty to killing her father’s cousin, but later retracted her confession and said her boyfriend carried out the killing. She told a judge that she had initially confessed because her boyfriend told her that, as a minor, she would not be executed and she could save him from being put to death, her lawyer said.
Her boyfriend, who was 19 at the time of the killing, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for complicity in murder.
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