The Iranian woman -- sentenced to death by stoning for adultery -- confessed to helping a man kill her husband and re-enacted the alleged crime in an interview broadcast today (December 10, 2010) on Iranian state television, according to the Associated Press website.
The move was seen by Western officials as an effort by the Iranian government to reduce international criticism over her being stoned to death.
Iranian authorities can now use the murder charge to justify executing Sakineh Mohammedi Ashtiani by hanging instead of stoning.
Ashtiani described how she began an affair with a man identified as Isa Taheri. She said she gave her husband an injection that rendered him unconscious, and then Taheri came to her house and electrocuted him.
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