Reyhaneh was hanged in the early hours of Saturday after being found guilty of killing Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi in July 2007.
Tehran's Public Prosecutor issued a statement on Saturday confirming the execution and noted that Jabbari had preplanned the murder and purchased the knife to kill Sarbandi two days prior to the incident.
The 26-year-old woman has confessed to the murder claiming that she had stabbed the man to death to defend herself against attempted rape, but her claims were rejected based on further investigations and crime scene evidence.
Jabbari’s execution was halted earlier this month in order to give her lawyer more time to convince the victim's family to pardon her.
Under Islamic law, a convicted murderer is put to death if the victim's family demands execution.
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