Posted on 01/30/2008 8:23:57 PM PST by nuconvert
Iran's Chief Judge Orders an End to Executions in Public
January 30, 2008
The Associated Press
Santa Barbara News-Press
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's chief judge has ordered that executions will no longer take place in public, the official IRNA news agency reported Wednesday.
Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, a moderate conservative cleric, also banned publishing pictures and broadcasting video footage of executions, the report said.
Executions can now only be carried out in public after special approval by the head of the judiciary, the report said.
Since the start of this year, Iran has hanged more than 20 people convicted of murder, rape and drug smuggling. In the second half of last year, it executed more than 55 people, mostly in the open.
On Monday, state television broadcast footage showing two men after their hanging in the central Iranian city of Arak. It said they were convicted of serial rape and murder of women.
Shahroudi has made other surprising decisions in the past. In 2004, he ordered a ban on the use of torture in obtaining confessions -
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Of course, no one really knows how many people are actually executed/tortured to death every year behind closed doors as it is.
“In 2004, he ordered a ban on the use of torture in obtaining confessions -”
Lol. Yeah that was effective
Awhhhwh com-on!? I lived and breathed for those videos of beheadings and amputations conducted by the Religion Of Peace!! And now some activist judge I didn’t elect has squirrelled my only enjoyment in life!!
-PJ
So Iran has activist judges too...
CAIR might sue you too.
What does CAIR have to do with this?
The picture is negative and they might sue you for posting it..sarc too much Savage.
The picture is negative and they might sue you for posting it..sarc too much Savage.
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