After carrying out more than 300 executions a year in 2007, 2008, and 2009, Iran executed at least 252 people in 2010 and at least 1,303 since 2007. A large percentage of Iranian executions are punishment for drug-related offenses. Seventeen members of Iran鈥檚 Kurdish minority are also on death row for what the report called 鈥減olitical offenses.鈥�
Iran is also one of the few remaining countries to sentence people to death by stoning 鈥� the punishment for 鈥渁dultery while married.鈥� While no one was executed by stoning in 2010, at least 14 people were sentenced to it at the end of the year.
