Some may be in favor of capital punishment, others may not be. Either way, one thing is for sure, the nine people hung for rape and/or drug trafficking will never rape or sell illegal drugs again.
The key element here, obviously, is whether or not these people were given a fair trial and proven guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt.
In my mind, if every citizen knows that certain crimes, whatever they may be (even spitting on the sidewalk for instance) are punishable by death, then all they need to do to avoid hanging is simply not committing those crimes. What could be simpler? Those who know the consequences of their actions and still choose to carry out those acts are simply taking a chance with their own lives; some may “win” but others will lose.
I’m not suggesting that this is the perfect system, but it sure beats having convicted murderers, rapists, serial killers, etc. sitting in jail with free food, medicine cable television, etc. for decades; all paid for by taxpayers – including the victims’ families! TGO
Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press
AFP
Iran on Tuesday hanged three convicted rapists and six drug traffickers — one of them a woman — in different cities, local media reported.
Two of the men, aged 23 and 25, were hanged in public in the western city of Kermanshah, Fars news agency reported.
They were executed after being found guilty of raping a number of women, some of them university students. They were not identified.
Fars also said five men and one woman were hanged on Tuesday for drug trafficking, notably dealing in heroin. They were not identified either.
ISNA news agency also reported a young man convicted of rape and identified by the initials M.S. was hanged publicly on Tuesday in the central town of Saveh, some 120 kilometres (72 miles) southwest of the capital.
The hangings bring to 266 the number of executions in Iran so far this year, according to an AFP tally based on media and official reports.
Human Rights Watch counted 388 executions in Iran in 2010. Amnesty International put the figure at 252, ranking the Islamic republic second only to China in the number of people put to death last year.
Iran says the death penalty is essential to maintain law and order, and that it is applied only after exhaustive judicial proceedings.
Murder, rape, armed robbery, drug trafficking and adultery are among the crimes punishable by death in Iran.
