2009: Four Iranians
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If not for China, Iran’s hundreds of annual executions would put it in a class all its own for capital punishment.
The legions of hanged in Iran are more than this site will ever manage with the biographical care that their friends might demand for their lives: we are doomed to know only a few, and often what we “know” is little more than a name and what an authority figure has accused him of. Ever it is thus: the kings and potentates, the star-crossed lovers and epic villains, make the history books. But most of the headsman’s clients are, like he himself, obscurities.
From Iran Human Rights, March 14, 2009.
March 14: Four people were executed by hanging in the Adelabad prison of Shiraz, reported the Iranian daily newspaper Etemaad today.
According to the report the men were identified as:
Abolhassan (age not given), convicted of a murder in 1981 26 years old man (name not given), convicted of murder Young man (name and age not given), convicted of murder 23 years old man (name and age at the time of committing the offence not given), convicted of raping two boys.
According to our sources, there are several minor offenders on death row in the Adelabad prison of Shiraz.
In 2008, at least two minor offenders were executed in the Adelabad prison of Shiraz.
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Entry Filed under: 21st Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,Hanged,Iran,Known But To God,Murder,Rape
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