Iran's Staggering Execution Spree: Nearly 700 Put to Death in Six Months

(Amnesty International) Iranian authorities are believed to have executed 694 people between Jan. 1 and July 15, 2015, Amnesty International reported on July 23, a rate of more than three people per day. "The state [is] carrying out premeditated, judicially-sanctioned killings on a mass scale," said Said Boumedouha, Deputy Director of Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa Program.