Delara Darabi, 22, has been on death row for six years since she confessed to the murder to protect her boyfriend, Amir Hossein Sotoudeh.
He allegedly killed one of her family as the couple burgled the woman's home.
Ms Darabi was arrested in 2003, aged 17. She says she confessed after Sotoudeh, 19 at the time, said she was too young to be executed.
She later retracted her confession, but a string of appeals against her death penalty have all failed. Now prison officials have warned her she faces execution today.
Amnesty International will hold a vigil outside the Iranian Embassy in London today in a final bid for a reprieve. Campaigns director Tim Hancock said: "In the past Iran has commuted death sentences after an international outcry."
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