[gatagato]

Death row drug offender Alireza M was found to be still breathing in prison morgue a day after being hanged for 12 minutes

A death row prisoner is to be hanged again after officials botched his execution.

Alireza M, 37, was certified dead after being hanged for 12 minutes and taken to the prison morgue.

But when his family went to collect his body for burial a day later, they discovered he was still breathing.

A relative said: “When we went to the coroner’s office we found him alive again which made his two *daughters very happy.”

Alireza, who was convicted of drug crimes, is under armed guard in a hospital close to the jail where he was being held in Bojnourd, northeast Iran.

But the country’s judiciary said his reprieve would be brief.

An official said: “The verdict was the death penalty and it will be carried out when he’s well.”

Iran is thought to have executed 560 people this year, including 200 since new “moderate” president Hassan Rouhani came to power in June.

Crimes punishable by death include theft and “un-Islamic behaviour”. Only China executes more people.


http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-n...#ixzz2hrsmGGo4

[Megamel29]

Yikes. I wonder what his specific crime was. Selling drugs? Smuggling? How much?

[gatagato]

He got caught in possession of 1 kilogram of crystal meth in the prison of Bojnord (northeastern Iran).

[Megamel29]

Originally Posted by gatagato ↗

He got caught in possession of 1 kilogram of crystal meth in the prison of Bojnord (northeastern Iran).

Wow. So they are harsh on drugs then. Man...

[icheerthebull]

The term 'keep your trap shut' comes from the days of the death penalty in England. If there was a malfunction in the trapdoor and the condemed was not hung they would be released. They should let this guy go. Kind of weird they would nurse him back to health then hang him

[gatagato]

I agree, it's just cruelty at this point, and it's useless. Paradoxically, in Iran, for murders, the victim's families have the option to forgive the criminal by accepting a settlement to compensate the loss, it's considered a private matter between the victims' and the murderers' families.
I'm not saying to set him free, but spare his life, ffs, he has already learned the lesson for sure.

[Megamel29]

Originally Posted by gatagato ↗

I agree, it's just cruelty at this point, and it's useless. Paradoxically, in Iran, for murders, the victim's families have the option to forgive the criminal by accepting a settlement to compensate the loss, it's considered a private matter between the victims' and the murderers' families.
I'm not saying to set him free, but spare his life, ffs, he has already learned the lesson for sure.

Right? Especially since he wasn't convicted of a violent crime. How many times can you kill a man?

[Pyramid_Head]

Fucking unreal...

[ices]

He will have company when the noose is put around his neck. The guy that certified him dead that is.

[Sharon]

It's just gratuitous now. They can't re-execute him??

Death penalty for theft and "un-Islamic behaviour" - well you can be hanged for a hell of a lot of 'crimes' then