(AKI) - A court in the Iran's second largest city, Mashad, has sentenced to death by stoning a mother-of-three for having an extra-marital affair, an Iranian newspaper reported Friday. The daily Quds said the married woman's lover had confessed to having had sex with her and that the court sentenced him to 100 lashes.There are currently eight women in Iranian prisons waiting to be executed by stoning, a practice usually reserved for those found guilty of adultery according to the Islamic republic's laws. Earlier this year it was reported that a man had been put to death by stoning, the first person to be executed in this way for several years. Capital punishment in Iran - after China, the country to carry out the highest number of executions - usually involves death by hanging.