Iran: Juvenile Offender Sentenced to Deathمحکومیت یک کودک-مجرم به اعدام
NOVEMBER 2, 2018
Iran Human Rights (IHR); November 1,
2018: A juvenile offender was sentenced to death on a murder charge.
According to the Iranian newspaper, Javan,
a prisoner was sentenced to qisas (retribution in kind) on a murder charge. The
newspaper published the prisoner’s first name as Pouyan and emphasized that he
killed a person during a fight at the age of 17. Branch 7 of Tehran’s Criminal
Court issued the verdict; however, the paper did not reveal any information
about the date of the hearing and issuance of the verdict.
It seems the court did not send the juvenile offender to
the forensics to estimate his full mental development. The mental development estimation
is possible under Article 91 of the Islamic Penal Code and can potentially save
a juvenile offenders life.
According to Article 91 of Iran's revised Islamic Penal
Code, it is up to the presiding judge's discretion to deem the juvenile mature
enough to understand the nature of the offense: "In the cases of
offenses punishable by hadd or qisas, if mature people under eighteen years do
not realize the nature of the crime committed or its prohibition, or if there
is uncertainty about their full mental development, according to their age,
they shall be sentenced to the punishments prescribed in this chapter."
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