Iran Eases Death Penalty for Drug Crimes, Saving Potentially Thousands of Lives
Arash Khamooshi/Iranian Students News Agency, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images TEHRAN — Iranians sentenced to death for drug-related crimes have had their convictions suspended by the country’s hard-line judiciary, a move that activists say could save potentially 5,000 lives. , is aimed at reducing the number of executions in the country. Iran is second only to China in its number of executions, and the majority who receive death sentences have been convicted of drug-related crimes. Iran’s Parliament amended the country’s drug laws ...
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