Iranian Human Rights Commission Chief:: "Stoning is neither torture nor an incongruous punishment...If we had execution as a punishment for adultery instead of stoning, they would again complain that the crime and the punishment are not in proportion with each other."

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A woman who committed adultery, having a husband and three children was sentenced to death in an Iranian court in Mashhad

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The execution has apparently gone ahead despite Iran’s moratorium on execution by stoning, a moratorium that had been in effect since 2002," said Jose Diaz in a statement issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva.

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Judiciary spokesman asked members of Iranian parliament to help amend the country’s penal code.

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In Iran, the legislative entities do not have the freedom to easily change or remove laws that are in harmony with religious principles. The Gaurdian Council in Iran acts to prevent the passage of laws that it finds incompatible with Islamic law.

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