Two Iranian women, Zahra Baghshirin and Farahnaz Yuly...

Two Iranian women, Zahra Baghshirin and Farahnaz Yuly were executed by hanging in a prison in Gachsaran in southwestern Iran for taking part in the murder of a friend's husband. The two had been found guilty of helping a friend get rid of her husband by stabbing him in the back and beating him with batons. Another woman who took part in the murder was handed a 15-year jail term. The wife of the murder victim, who had enrolled her friends to commit the killing, escaped with a three-year jail term given that she was not present at the scene of the crime.