Iran's zero tolerance leads to wave of executions
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By Farshid Motahari Aug 3, 2007, 13:13 GMT
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People that like to watch executions give me the creeps.
This is what the Iranians are doing to each other:
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Iran has sentenced two dissident journalists from its ethnic Kurdish minority for being 'enemies of God'.
Rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF), says Adnan Hassanpour and Hiva Boutimar were sentenced by a court in the eastern city of Marivan.
The two journalists have 20 days to appeal against their sentences, but if their cases are rejected by the Supreme Court the sentence will be carried out.
Iran has executed over 100 people so far in 2007, most of them by hanging.
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The Iranian judiciary says a man has been stoned to death for adultery - the first time it has confirmed such an execution in five years.
Jafar Kiani was executed last week in a village in north-west Qazvin province.
Amnesty International said Mr Kiani and Mokarrameh Ebrahimi, 43, were convicted of adultery more than a decade ago.
The human rights group has appealed for Ms Ebrahimi to be spared. Adultery is a capital offence, punishable by stoning, under Iran's Islamic law.
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Buried to waist
They were sent to Choubin prison, Qazvin, where Ms Ebrahimi is thought to remain with her two children.
Amnesty International UK director Kate Allen said: 'To execute anyone by stoning is barbaric and disgraceful. To execute a woman for adultery in this cruel way simply beggars belief.
'Iran should abolish the sentence of stoning once and for all.'
Under the punishment of stoning, a male convict is buried up to his waist with his hands tied behind his back, while a female offender is buried up to her neck with her hands also buried.
The stoning brings to at least 110 the number of executions carried out in the Islamic republic so far this year, most of them by hanging and often in public.
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I absolutely agree with the death penalty if monsters kill rape abuse
children or sell drugs must die
'Georgios Oikonomopoulos
I absolutely agree with the death penalty if monsters kill rape abuse
children or sell drugs must die'
In Iran they publicly lynch women fro the 'crime' of being raped. They publicly lynched a 16 year old girl (Atefah Sahaaleh) for the 'crime' of being 'disobedient'.
none of this is about 'justace' it is about the miserable iranian mullahs exerting control through intimidation. Idiots like you Georgios Oikonomopoulos are part of the reason they can get away with it.
...is a swastika. Next: Incarceration of ethnic jews.
Iran allows us to time travel to the Stone Age to see human society before it evolved into civilization.
They should let them free, and have them rape more women, and commit more murders, that is the western civilization and ata higher level of humanity...DO NOT KILL...LET THEM COMMIT MORE CRIMES
'why Iranians kill the killers and murderers?'
How about journalists? Why do they kill them? How about rape victims? Why do they kill them?
' that is the western civilization and ata higher level of humanity...DO NOT KILL...LET THEM COMMIT MORE CRIMES'
Go back to Iran, you will fit in with the rest of the miserable savages. Simply: Leave the west. You like public hangings and stoning for 'crimes' like 'infidelity' go back to where it is commonplace. It will save us from having to deport you.
Stunning proof that Iran is at least a century behind the civilized world.
Yep pretty sick but Iran is not the only country who still uses the death penalty.
There are 73 other countries on this planet who do this.
The countries with the most executions in one year are : China, USA, Iran, Saudi Arabia
Georgeious - Mohammad was a pediphile does that count ?
If you ask any psychologist about executions, then he will tell you that capital punishment is only a deterrent to crime when such executions are public. Hidden behind closed doors under sanitized conditions without the public being permitted to see them, executions have zero affect on the crime rate. I've got to give the Iranians credit. If you're going to have a death penalty, then the executions need to be held publicly. Period. If you're ashamed of having executions held publicly, then you should persuade politicians to make the death penalty illegal. Making executions public and charing admission with the funds going to a victim's assistance program would also be quite beneficial to society.
Out come the moral equivalence arguments...
'I've got to give the Iranians credit.'
Indeed, how could you miss the opportunity to equate the execution of journalists, women who have been disobedient or homosexuals as judged by some religious witch doctor with any other form of capital punishment. Lynching people in public is evidentially psychologist approved in your miserable moral equivalence world because 'capital punishment is only a deterrent to crime when such executions are public'... Logically then 'If you ask any psychologist' stoning would be preferable to slow suffocation at the end of a rope for the crime of being raped. 9 out of 10 cognitive therapists prefer death by a thousand cuts to boiling in oil. I guess the Iranians have it all figured out, you should move there Chuck P.
I believe in the idea of burning people alive, to get rid of them before there are any crimes committed, like in Waco, Texas. Napalm has worked pretty well in killing and burning civilians, and plenty of Americans advocate a big nuclear burn to take care of problems in the middle east.
May we all go to heaven for such activities.
if muslims give creep, than you should ashamed oy yourself what your people have done to 14 year old gril in Iraq, raping her kiling her family and burning their bodies, waht kind of animal are? you stupid
We put them in jail mark, they are judges and prime ministers in Iran.
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