Iran announces first execution of a prisoner arrested in protests

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Iran is one of the world's top executioners.
41% : That charge has been levied against others in the decades since 1979 and carries the death penalty.
36% : The execution comes as other detainees also face the possibility of capital punishment for their involvement in the protests, which began in mid-September, first as an outcry against Iran's morality police.
34% : At least 475 people have been killed in the demonstrations amid a harsh security crackdown, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, a group that's been monitoring the protests since they began.
33% : Iran has been rocked by protests since the Sept. 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died after being detained by the country's morality police.
32% : It accused Shekari of blocking a street in Tehran and attacking a member of the security forces with a machete.
23% : Iran said Thursday that it executed a prisoner convicted of a crime allegedly committed during the country's ongoing nationwide protests, the first such death sentence carried out by Tehran.

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