The Iranian woman Reyhaneh Jabbari, convicted of murdering a man in 2007, was hanged inside a prison near the capital Tehran on Saturday morning, Press TV reported.
In a statement issued on Saturday, Tehran's Public Prosecutor confirmed the execution, saying that Jabbari had preplanned the murder and stabbed the man to death.
The 26-year-old woman, arrested seven years ago, had confessed to the murder claiming that she had attacked the man to defend herself against an attempted rape, but her claims were rejected based on further investigations and crime scene evidence, according to the report.
Some reports had said earlier that the murdered man, Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, had hired Jabbari to redesign his office but he sexually abused her.
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.