IRAN JUDICIARY CONFIRMS MEN STONED TO DEATH FOR ADULTERY

Iran's judiciary confirmed that two men were stoned to death for adultery in the northeastern city of Mashhad while a third struggled from the stoning hole and escaped with his life. "As you saw in reports, there were three stonings carried out in Mashhad. They were convicted of adultery, that is an affair with a married woman," judiciary spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi told reporters.
He said two of the men died in the executions carried out "about 20 days ago" while the third was spared after he managed to extricate himself from the stoning hole.
The reformist Etemad Melli newspaper identified one of the men as Houshang Kh. and the survivor as an Afghan national named Mahmoud.