Despite calls by human
rights group Amnesty International for an 11th-hour stay of the 17-year-old\'s
execution, Alireza Molla-Soltani was sent to the gallows at the scene of the
crime in the city of
A large crowd of people had
gathered to witness the hanging and security forces were present \"to
ensure the sentence was carried out without any glitches,\" the official
IRNA news agency reported.
Molla-Soltani was sentenced
to death last month for stabbing the popular athlete, Ruhollah Dadashi, to
death in mid-July.
The teenager said at his
trial he had killed only in self-defence after a driving dispute led him and
two other youths into a confrontation with Dadashi, according to Amnesty.
A spokesman for the
prosecution, Ali Ramezanmanesh said the boy had reached \"religious
maturity\" and was over 18 years of age.
\"The law views
religious maturity as its criterion which is calculated according to the lunar
calendar, therefore the convict is over 18 and there are no legal impediments\"
in the way of the hanging, he told Fars news agency.
The Islamic lunar calendar
is some 11 days shorter than the solar calendar, with 354 days a year.
\"Executing juvenile
offenders is strictly forbidden under international treaties that
Along with
The latest hanging brings
to 202 the number of executions reported in
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