Baku, Azerbaijan, Aug. 11
By Fatih Karimov – Trend:
An Iranian man charged of drug smuggling and killing three police officers was publicly hanged in the Iranian southern city of Kazeroun on the morning of Aug. 11, the city’s prosecutor Abdolhossein Lotfi said, IRIB news agency reports.
The man was arrested in March because of smuggling various drugs, including heroin and methamphetamine, but when he was under interrogation in a police station, he attacked a police officer, seized his gun and shot three police officers, Lotfi said.
Iran's Supreme Court had already approved the regional court's sentence.
Murder, rape, armed robbery and trafficking of drugs in quantities exceeding 5 kilograms are among the crimes punishable by death in Iran.
Iran ranks second after China in terms of the number of executions.