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Capital punishment in Iran is legal.〔"(China Leads Death List as Number of Executions Around the World Soars )", Common Dreams NewsCenter, 5 April 2005. Retrieved 16 May 2006.〕 Crimes punishable by death include murder, rape, child molestation, sodomy, drug trafficking, armed robbery, kidnapping, terrorism and treason.〔("Iran/death penalty" ) p4. International Federation for Human Rights. Last accessed 19 February 2011.〕 According to Amnesty International, there were 360 executions in Iran in 2011, 734 (of which 14 women and 13 juveniles) in 2014 and 694 in the first half of 2015.〔 The figures for 2015 are between 1 January and 15 July.〕 According to Iranian public sources 252 executions (of which 5 women and 1 juvenile) were carried out in 2011,〔(Amnesty Internatiobal Iran Annual Report 2011. )〕 289 in 2014 and 246 in the first half of 2015.〔 Up to 74% were drug related, and almost all executions were carried out for murder, aggravated rape, deadly robbery/kidnapping, or large scale drug trafficking.〔(Iran to Hang 300 for Drug Trafficking ). Retrieved 1 June 2014〕 Iran has garnered Western media attention and criticism for allegedly carrying out executions of minors despite having signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which forbids executing child offenders for crimes committed under the age of 18.〔"", Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 9 June 2004. Retrieved 16 May 2006.〕〔"(Iran 'must stop youth executions' )", BBC News, 28 July 2005. Retrieved 16 May 2006.〕〔"(Death penalty in Iran 'vice' case )", BBC News, 22 December. Retrieved 16 May 2006.〕〔"(UN chides Iran over human rights )", BBC News, 21 December 2004. Retrieved 16 May 2006.〕 Iran justifies its actions by claiming dispensation in cases where the Convention is deemed "incompatible with Islamic jurisprudence".〔http://www.dn.se/ledare/medeltidsvecka-i-iran-1.717769〕 Iran has also been criticized for allegedly using stoning as capital punishment, though an Iranian judiciary spokesman fiercely denied the accusations of stoning and executing minors, describing these as propaganda against the Iranian state.〔(BBC: Iran denies execution by stoning )〕 Iran is believed to execute the most people per capita. However, other countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Nigeria allegedly carry out secret executions. Iran insists that the execution numbers human rights groups allege are exaggerated, and that executions are only carried out after a lengthy judicial process. Iranian officials cite that they are fighting a large-scale drug war along its eastern borders, and the increase of drug lords and dealers causes a rise in executions. Execution of women in Iran is less common, though 5 women were executed in Iran in 2011 (2010).〔 == Capital crimes == Death sentences in Iran are, in theory, legal for eight different crimes: armed robbery, treason, murder, drug trafficking, rape, pedophilia, sodomy, kidnapping, and terrorism.〔 There are four classes of crimes in Iranian law: qesas crimes, hadd crimes, tazir crimes, and deterrent crimes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Capital punishment in Iran」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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