IRAN WORLD LEADER IN CHILD EXECUTIONS

The left is wrong on every issue. Every issue.  Hypocrites Fonda, Rosie, Sarandon: several of the child offenders on death row are members of minority groups, such as Iranian Arabs, Afghan refugees, homosexuals, and young girls who had been abused and molested.

Iran Cited Over Execution of Minors
71 Child Offenders Are on Death Row, According to Rights Group

In a troubling report on the execution of minors in Iran, Amnesty International said yesterday that at least 71 child offenders are on death row and more than 24 have been executed since 1990, more than in any other country.

WaPo uses the word "troubling" - exectuing children is "troubling."

Defendants younger than 18 are being hanged after swift decisions and hurried procedures, said the report, "Iran: The Last Executioner of Children." Of the 24 child offenders reported executed, 11 were still younger than 18 at the time of their deaths.

The 41-page report lists names and details of each known case but says the actual number of executions was higher because many death penalty cases in Iran go unreported. In the last three years, only three other countries used the death penalty against minors: China executed one child offender in 2004, Sudan executed two in 2005 and Pakistan executed one in 2006.

All members in good standing at the UN.

Under Iranian law, capital offenses include adultery by married people, incest, rape, four convictions of an unmarried person for fornication, three convictions for drinking alcohol, or four convictions for homosexual acts among men.

The most prominent capital case is that of Atefeh Rajabi , who was hanged on Aug. 15, 2004, in the town of Neka, in northern Mazandaran province. She was 16 and had been sentenced to death for a fourth conviction of crimes against chastity. Her crimes included being alone in a car with a boy and being caught at a cafe without a chaperon. Officials claimed she was 22, but her birth certificate listed 1988 as her year of birth. She was arrested repeatedly as a child by Iran's Revolutionary Guard, the first time when she was 13.

Amnesty calls on Iran to stop child executions AFP
LONDON (AFP) - Amnesty International appealed for Iran to stop executing children and those who committed their crimes before they turned 18, in a report published Wednesday.

The London-based human rights group said that 71 children, indicted for a variety of offences, were awaiting the death penalty in Iran, and added that Iran had executed the most minors of any country in the world since 1990.

In that time 11 children were executed while they were still legally minors, and a further 13 were killed after remaining on death row until they had reached their 18th birthday before being hanged, Amnesty said.

"Iran stands virtually alone as a country in which child offenders -- persons under 18 at the time of the crime of which they were convicted -- are put to death," Malcolm Smart, the director of Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa programme, said in a statement.

Comments

[Jakesgramma]

I can't remember if you posted this documentary...The Atefeh Story.
There are 5 parts to it. :^(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovSI2uyZW6w&mode=related&search=

[kris]

Pam, I'd tread carefully here- our beloved state of Texas will wait for child killers to hit 18 and then take them to the chair. I know because I helped on an amicus brief to SCOTUS in respect of a kid that it happend to.

That put Texas up with Pakistan as one of only few states (as cited above) which uses this practice.

[Gary]

kris... how do 'crimes against chastity' compare with murder? And does Texas have a death row for 'crimes against chastity?

[allat]

People, the iman rule is so vile, that they have the custom - either because it's prescribed in the koran (spit, spit) or ancient that they've keep the policy- that all the girls are raped before execution.

In islamic countries, it is stated, that virgins are not to be executed.

So they gang rape them the night before. I suppose, after this, the girls DO want to die.

[kris]

You should do some homework on the state of the Texas legal system. Drunk lawyers, sleeping judges, lawyers that slag off their own clients, lawyers who get no remuneration for defending capital cases...it goes on and it is well known.

That is why many states stopped the death penalty- at least there could be a proper review of death row cases.

It used to be the case that one had an automatic appeal to SCOTUS. Your favorite president Bill Clinton put an end to that.

[Nahanni]

Your agenda is showing, kris. Your inability to see the difference between the two situations is indicative of a person who is so blinded by their agendas that they are incapable of rational thought.

[kris]

Slag me off if you like- and don't believe me- read the Amnesty Report Pam quotes for yourself. Look under Texas and weep.

[Pamela Geller]

Nashani,

a person who is so blinded by their agendas that they are incapable of rational thought.

You've just described the left.