The death sentence of Ali Aghajeri-Peyvand, a 25-year-old prisoner convicted of murder and sentenced to qisas (retribution in kind), was carried out on the morning of Monday, October 20, in Sepidar Prison in Ahwaz.

According to the Iran Human Rights Organisation, Ali Aghajeri-Peyvand was from Behbahan and was 20 years old at the time of the crime. On December 19, 2019, following a dispute over agricultural land between his father and his father’s business partners, he intervened to defend his father, and during the altercation, committed a murder using a sharp weapon.

In Iran, due to the lack of classification in murder-related offenses, all forms of homicide—regardless of motive or the level of violence involved—can result in a death sentence.

According to the annual report of the Iran Human Rights Organisation, at least 419 people were executed in 2024 in connection with murder charges and under qisas laws. This number was 282 in 2023, 288 in 2022, and 183 in 2021. The year 2024 thus marked the highest number of qisas executions since 2010.