permits the issuance of the death penalty sentences for those under the age of 18, and the reforms introduced by the Islamic Penal Code have not been adequate to effectively remove this type of punishment from legislation. Iran's justification for juvenile executions is that they do not execute any juveniles before the age of 18. That is, under existing law, if a person under the age of 18 commits a crime punishable by death, the death sentence will continue to be imposed on the juvenile offender after a court hearing, but the execution of the death penalty will be suspended until the offender reaches the age of 18. Despite amendments to Iranian law in this regard, and the imposition of alternative punishments like imprisonment for juvenile offenders, the death penalty is still being issued and carried out in the case of murder (qisas).15 Since 1990, Iran has executed more juvenile offenders than any other country in the world, and the number is more than double the total number of juvenile offenders executed by countries which constitute the next nine countries that continue to execute minors.16 Iranian authorities executed 5 juvenile offenders (people who were under the age of 18 when committing a crime) in 2017, 6 in 2018 and 4 in 2019.17 There are reports of juvenile offenders having their sentences commuted 18, yet these reports are few and far between compared to the number of juvenile offenders being executed yearly. Recommendation status: This recommendation has NOT been implemented 15 Iran Human Rights and ECPM, Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran 2019, 34. https://www.iranhr.net/en/reports/22/ Amnesty International, “Executions of Juveniles Since 1990 as of November 2019” accessed April 25, 2020, https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/ACT5002332019ENGLISH.pdf 17 https://iranhr.net/media/files/Rapport_iran-GB.pdf and https://iranhr.net/media/files/Rapport_iran_2019-GB-BD.pdf 18 ISNA News -The death sentence of 6 juvenile offenders was commuted on February 8, 2017 (in Persian): https://www.isna.ir/news/ 16 4