Half-naked woman hanged on a bridge
Members of a drug cartel kidnapped a woman from her house and hung her half-naked on a road bridge as a warning to their enemies. Unfortunately, we do not have more information, but it is likely that the incident happened in Mexico.
Related Article
Read more about The Brutal Hanging of The Two Teenagers who where Accused of Murderer" this is terrible"
Daughter executes own mum by kicking away chair in barbaric Iran hanging
Maryam Karimi's lifeless body swung from the gallows of Iran's central Rasht prison when cruel guards escorted her father and co-conspirator Ebrahim - who helped her kill her abusive husband - in to look at her corpse
On February 22 last year, Maryam and Ebrahim were transferred to death row, but the hanging was delayed for unknown reasons.
Under Iran's take on Islamic Law, it is the relatives of murder victims rather than the state who decide the killer's punishment.
On conviction, families are asked if they want revenge in the form of "qisas" or an "eye-for-an-eye", or if they want to spare them and receive a sum of "blood money" instead. Forgiveness is also an option, one which is surprisingly popular.
The qisas law becomes even more barbaric when the victims are related or married. In Maryam's case, the only person who could make the decision was her daughter.
A few weeks later, the teen was taken to Rasht Central Prison to kick the chair out from under her own mum's feet, causing her to drop as she was hanged from the rafters.
Ebrahim was given a temporary reprieve but guards made sure to escort him in front of the stage where his daughter's body was still swinging from the gallows.
In June this year, Ebrahim was killed in the same prison as his daughter.
Read more about When Dennis Rader murdered a family of four in cold blood, he made the children watch as he strangled their parents.
Iranian rights groups believe the qisas system gives the Iran's clerical leaders plausible deniability, allowing them to shirk the responsibility of being the second most prolific state executor, with only China beating its grim annual tallies.
Iran's clerical leaders laud the family's "right" to retribution as "holy", Mahmood said, adding that other civil liberties such as freedom of expression are routinely ignored or suppressed.
Judges and prosecutors pressure families to choose blood over other options, saying that it is their right and duty to their slain relative and to god, he added.
Mahmood said: "They're made to feel guilty if they don't ask for retribution. It's done using psychological pressure, so it's in a very subtle way."
But despite these subtle pressures the majority of everyday Iranians choose to spare the lives of those who tore their loved ones from them.
"he number of people who choose, you know, blood money or forgiveness, instead of the death penalty is much higher than those who ask for a hanging," Mahmood added.
"Last year, there were more than 700 cases where the plaintiff either gave their forgiveness, or said no to that penalty and went for blood money.
"The number of actual cases of execution were below 200 I think."
Thanks for reading leave your thoughts in the comment section below and share thank you
Comments
Post a Comment