Posted on 03/16/2005 6:34:47 AM PST by Crookie Monster
An Iranian serial killer who murdered at least 20 children has been executed in front a large crowd of spectators. Mohammad Bijeh, 22, dubbed "the Tehran desert vampire" by Iran's press, was flogged 100 times before being hanged.
A brother of one of his young victims stabbed him as he was being punished. The mother of another victim was asked to put the noose around his neck.
The execution took place in Pakdasht south of Tehran, near where Bijeh's year-long killing spree took place.
The killer was hoisted about 10 metres into the air by a crane and slowly throttled to death in front of the baying crowd.
Hanging by a crane - a common form of execution in Iran - does not involve a swift death as the condemned prisoner's neck is not broken.
Calm and silent
The killer collapsed twice during the punishment, although he remained calm and silent throughout.
Spectators, held back by barbed wire and about 100 police officers, chanted "harder, harder" as judicial officials took turns to flog Bijeh's bare back before his hanging.
The condemned collapsed twice during the pre-execution flogging Bijeh was stabbed by the 17-year-old brother of victim Rahim Younessi, AFP reported, as he was being readied to be hanged.
Officials then invited the mother Milad Kahani to put the blue nylon rope around his neck.
The crimes of Mohammed Bijeh and his accomplice Ali Baghi had drawn massive attention in the Iranian media.
They reportedly tricked children to go with them into the desert south of Tehran by saying they were going to hunt animals. They then poisoned or knocked their victims out, sexually abused them and buried them in shallow graves.
They were found guilty of the murders of between 19 and 22 people, but local people believe the toll to be higher.
Baghi has been given a 15 year prison term.
"I wish American due process could be combined with Islamic sentencing. Give criminals their day in court...but make sure that the punishment fits the crime."
yeah we can sell this to the liberals as multicultarism and cross culture understanding
I like that the victims' families get to participate in the punishment. Nice touch.
He took little kids from their parents. He drugged them. He raped them. He buried them in shallow graves. He repeated this many times.
Any bleeding hearts will just have to forgive the weakness of the rest of us for wanting his death to be unpleasant.
have to give them credit, they do know how to party
Michael Jackson needs a vacation to Iran.........
Where were the protests of Amnesty International?
LOL! Beat me to it, darn you! :)
That flogging will teach him a lesson.
*snrk*
There are things we can learn from Islamic culture.
So9
Works for me, although I would guess that 100 lashes with any whip, electric cord, belt, et al, would leave the person almost dead anyway; why hang him?
I've always been a proponent of public execution as a deterrent to crime. Maybe, just maybe if the perps know that they will die a slow, agonizing death, in the public view, they might think twice. Then again, maybe not.
You have to be quick to beat fellow FReepers to to grisly humor -:)
I thought he was already dead. Deosn't look to scary to me.
Gotta hand to the Muslime here - no lengthy, expensive court trials and no sympathy for the "poor misunderstood criminal", like you'd surely see in America.
I especially like the mother of one of the victims being able to help with the hanging.
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