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A picture is worth 1,000 words: Iranian justice
In this photo taken in Tehran on Sunday, a 23-year-old man about to be hanged seeks comfort from an unlikely source — his executioner.
Photo by Amir Pourmand (ISNA/AP)
Masked in black, the hangman embraced the condemned before carrying out his execution. As Walter Russell Meade notes, the image isn’t from inside a prison, but from a public execution.
The two young men hanged in Tehran’s Park-e Honarmandan (Artists Park) on Sunday were convicted of stabbing a man, stealing his bag, and taking $20. During the trial, one of the men claimed that poverty drove them to crime. A judge convicted them of “waging war against God,†and sentenced them to death.
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woodyee
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 9:28amAn after-thought:
Being as the cry “Allah hu-ahkbar!” is SO often associated with death, what must it feel like to hear those words shouted by dozens, if not hundreds or thousands around that park, just before the hangman drops the bottom out from under you?…
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woodyee
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 9:24am1. Ghoulish.
2. How sad it must be that the only person you have around to find comfort in, is one about to kill you.
3. If justice were as swift, here, we wouldn’t have such high crime rates.
4. Cruel and unusual is being made to wait on death-row for decades. Better to get it over with, quickly – for everybody’s sake, just as was intended.
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woodyee
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 9:19amI’m swept by a wave of thought over this photo – I’ll toss them up as they come to mind
1. Ghoulish
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