Three women, including a former child bride, have been executed for murdering their husbands, sparking calls to end an "execution spree" in Iran.
There were 32 people executed in the country last week, including the women who were hung on Wednesday after being convicted of murdering their husbands.
Of those women was former child bride Soheila Abedi, 25, who was convicted of killing her husband who she married when she was 15 years old, the Iran Human Rights Group said.
The court cited the reason for the murder as "family disputes".
The Iran Human Rights Group reported that Iran executes more women than any other country, with the majority found guilty of killing their husbands.
Activists say many of the cases involve accusations of domestic violence but the Iranian courts frequently do not take that into consideration.
Amnesty International said Iranian authorities have embarked on a "killing spree" with at least 251 people executed between January 1 to June 30, which is at least one person executed each day on average.
Of those executed, at least 86 were for drug-related offences, which according to international law should not incur the death penalty.
While precise figures on execution numbers are not available, two rights groups found only 16.5 percent of executions carried out in Iran last year were announced by officials and the use of the death penalty has spiked further since.
"The state machinery is carrying out killings on a mass scale across the country in an abhorrent assault on the right to life," Amnesty International deputy regional director for the Middle East and North Africa Diana Eltahawy said.
"The renewed surge in executions, including in public, shows yet again just how out of step Iran is with the rest of the world."
Amnesty International is warning that if executions continue at this pace they will soon surpass the total of 314 executions recorded in 2021.
The organisation said 144 countries have rejected the death penalty in law or practice.
The death penalty was abolished in New Zealand in 1961, not having been used since 1957.
