Thursday, the top judge of Iran was confronted with conflicting pleas on the possibility of sparing a drug trafficker
An Iranian Convict Could Hang Again
On Thursday, the top judge of Iran was confronted with conflicting pleas on the possibility of sparing a drug trafficker who had been found alive in a morgue one day after being hanged.
The prisoner, named only as 37-year-old Alireza M., was first "put to death" at a government prison in northern Iran. An attending physician later declared the prisoner dead.
However, the prisoner was still living the next day when his family went to get his body, according to official state media.
Although he is still in the hospital, a court allegedly declared that he would be put to death once more "once medical staff confirm his health condition is good enough."
According to Mohammad Mostafaei, an Iranian human rights attorney who focuses on death penalty cases, Iran's chief justice
Legally, someone who was already hanged, and remains alive, can be hanged again," he said. "But families of the victims in these types of situations have the right to ask for a stay of execution and in Alireza’s case it’s inhumane to hang him again."
A group of Iranian lawyers signed a petition to Chief Justice Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani appealing for a stay in the exceptional case.
The rights group Amnesty International urged Iranian authorities immediately halt Alireza M.’s execution and issue a moratorium on all others.
Amnesty representative Philip Luther said "carrying out a second execution on a man who somehow managed to survive 12 minutes of hanging — who was certified as dead and whose body was about to be turned over to his family — is simply ghastly."
He said the situation "betrays a basic lack of humanity that sadly underpins much of Iran’s justice system."
According to the rights group, Iranian authorities have executed at least 508 people in 2013, including 221 executions that have not been officially confirmed. Amnesty claims the majority of these were connected to drug offences.
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