And here we go again, today it was revealed that 24 people were killed in Iran due to drug dealing. Another 20 death penalties were carried out at the beginning of July. However, it is also believed that behind these death penalties are political reasons.

I personally find the figures quite shocking - there have been more than 294 death penalties in 2009! There is a good artickle in the Spiegel: http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,640686,00.html