Iran Executions: Man Hanged at Ardakan Prisonاعدام یک زندانی در زندان اردکان استان یزد
NOVEMBER 5,
2018
Iran Human Rights (IHR); November 5,
2018: A prisoner was executed on a murder charge at Ardakan Prison on Saturday,
November 3.
According to HRANA, Sami’
Mohtarami, 43, was convicted to qisas (retribution in kind) on a murder charge.
He killed a person during a car robbery in 2015.
The victim’s family agreed
to forgive Sami’ in the condition of receiving Diya. Diya in Islamic law
(Sharia) is a financial compensation paid to heirs of a victim to thus avoid a
retaliation punishment. However, Sami’ was a poor man and could not pay the
amount. Therefore, his execution was carried out on the morning on Sunday,
November 3, 2018.
The Penal Code of Iran
does not specifically state that convicted murderers are subject to the death
penalty, but rather to “qisas” which means “retribution in kind” or
retaliation. In this way, the State effectively puts the responsibility for
executions for murder on the shoulders of the victim’s family.
According to Iran Human Rights annual report on the death penalty, 240 of the 517 execution sentences in 2017 were implemented due to murder charges. There is a lack of a classification of murder by degree in Iran which results in issuing a death sentence for any kind of murder regardless of intensity and intent.
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