Iran’s ‘staggering’ execution spree: nearly 700 put to death in just over six months

[Sally]

Is any Iranian citizen able to get a fair trial in Iran?



Iran’s ‘staggering’ execution spree: nearly 700 put to death in just over six months

23 July 2015, 00:01 UTC

The Iranian authorities are believed to have executed an astonishing 694 people between 1 January and 15 July 2015, said Amnesty International today, in an unprecedented spike in executions in the country.

This is equivalent to executing more than three people per day. At this shocking pace, Iran is set to surpass the total number of executions in the country recorded by Amnesty International for the whole of last year.

“Iran’s staggering execution toll for the first half of this year paints a sinister picture of the machinery of the state carrying out premeditated, judicially-sanctioned killings on a mass scale,” said Said Boumedouha, Deputy Director of Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Programme.

“If Iran’s authorities maintain this horrifying execution rate we are likely to see more than 1,000 state-sanctioned deaths by the year’s end.”

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Iran s staggering execution spree nearly 700 put to death in just over six months Amnesty International?

 

[MisterBeale]

Pssshhh. What's good for America, I suppose is good for Iran.

 

[aris2chat]

Iran feels it just got a pass with this pending agreement to what it likes.

 

[rightwinger]

Sounds like a number Texas would be proud of

 

[Sally]

Pssshhh. What's good for America, I suppose is good for Iran.

Silly man!!! How many people are actually executed in America each year? Most of the murderers die of old age on Death Row. And people here are not thrown into jail for political reasons and then executed like they are in Iran. See how far you would last if you went to Iran and talked against the Ayatollahs.

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[BlackFlag]

Sounds like a number Texas would be proud of

The American right is definitely jealous.

 

[Sally]

Sounds like a number Texas would be proud of

Would it be possible for you to give us the number of executions in Texas as compared to the number of executions in Iran?

 

[Moonglow]

Does Iran execute mentally challenged folks like Texas does?

 

[montelatici]

The sad thing is that 90% of the executions are for drug crimes, even for small quantities. They recently changed the law to make the death penalty mandatory for drug selling and using.