Hamid Sameie,who allegedly committed murder in 2008, executed despite no judicial treaty between Iran and US and no record of LAPD criminal investigationAn Iranian-American man has been executed in Iran for a crime he allegedly committed in California seven years ago – even though there is no judicial treaty between Iran and the US, and making it impossible for Iranian authorities to have gathered information from their American counterparts. Hamid Sameie,also known as Sam, was hanged final month in Rajaee Shahr prison in Karaj, or west of the capital Tehran,after being found guilty in an Iranian court of murdering another dual national in Los Angeles in 2008.
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Source: theguardian.com