Dhaka, Aug. 22 -- Iran publicly hanged a convicted murderer at the scene of his alleged crime on Thursday, the judiciary said, just two days after another public execution.

Most executions in Iran are carried out inside prisons. Public executions are generally reserved for offences that caused particular outrage.

The latest hanging was carried out at dawn in the city of Kordkuy "at the scene of the crime and in public", provincial judiciary chief Heidar Asiabi told the judiciary's Mizan Online news website.

The condemned man had been convicted of killing "a couple and a young woman with a hunting rifle" late last year.

On Tuesday, a man was publicly hanged in the southern province of Fars after being convicted of murdering a mother and ...