Anomaly in Iran: adulterer stoned to death, adulteress "repented and so has not been stoned"

Usually women are stoned for adultery, while the men are exonerated. Sharia Alert from the Islamic Republic of Iran: "Adulterer stoned to death in Iran," from AFP, May 5 (thanks to JE):
A man convicted of committing adultery has been stoned to death in a northern Iranian city, a top judiciary official said.

The stoning was carried out in the city of Rasht during the Iranian month of Esfand which ended on March 20, judiciary spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi said.

He said the woman involved in the case has "repented and so has not been stoned".

Under Iran's Islamic law, adultery is still punishable by stoning, which involves the public hurling of stones at a partially buried convict. A man is buried up to his waist and a woman up to her shoulders.

Convicts are spared if they can free themselves.

They are not spared if they can free themselves, I have seen videos of they reburing a woman twice after she got out of the hole. She did not make it.

The Aftab-e Yazd newspaper reported that a 30-year-old government employee identified only as "V", was stoned in a prison in Rasht on March 5. Some Iranian news websites identified him as Vali Azad.

Five Iranians have reportedly been stoned to death in the past four years, including two men in Mashhad in December last year, despite a 2002 directive by judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi imposing a moratorium on such executions.