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Hushush were executed in public Wednesday in the main town of Khuzestan province.
Iran's supreme court upheld their conviction for killing a man, setting up roadblocks and holding up travellers, in a highway robbery which the prosecution said threatened public security.
Islamic laws in force in Iran lay down capital punishment for rape, armed robbery, drug trafficking and murder. In murder cases, a victim's family is entitled to pardon the killer.
Reuters : Iran hangs three men in public
TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian man has been publicly hanged for murdering a woman and two others were hanged for rape, newspapers said.
The Jomhuri-ye Eslami daily said on Monday that a 22-year-old man was hanged in the western city of Ilam on Sunday for murdering a 28-year-old teacher in her house last year.
He had broken into her house to steal her jewellery, it said.
Another newspaper, Kayhan, said Gholamreza Akbari and Mohsen Zolfaqari were hanged in public in Qom, in central Iran, on Monday for raping a woman neighbour last month.
The two men had entered the neighbour's house with intent to steal and fled after raping the woman, Kayhan said.
Iran strictly enforces Islamic Sharia law according to which the punishment for murderers and rapists is execution.
Source: Reuters
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