Nothing like a public execution to get the crowd going.
Iranian authorities hanged a woman in public in the north-western province of East Azerbaijan, state media reported on Sunday.
The unnamed woman was hanged in public in the provincial capital Tabriz, the daily Tehran-e Emrouz wrote. The report put her age at 29.
She was accused of murder and conspiring to kill.
Be advised, this is a very graphic video. These three people are hoisted up by their necks by a crane. Once they become visible to the crowd, you can hear it erupt in cheering. The obligatory “Allahu Akbar” heard throughout the video.
According to a commenter on LiveLeak:
The newspaper said the woman had strangled her husband while he slept. The same night her two male accomplices, who were paid 1 billion rials ($108,000), strangled her husband’s parents and stabbed his brother to death, it added.
“She had serious problems with her husband and hated his family. She hired Farhad and Reza to kill her brother-in-law and his parents,” an unnamed judiciary official told the paper.
The case attracted great public interest and about 5,000 people, including judiciary and police officials, gathered to watch the hangings.
Murder, rape, adultery, armed robbery, apostasy and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Iran’s Islamic Sharia law, imposed since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
The capital punishment for the crime isn’t the problem. It’s the public execution and the barbarity of the method that makes me shake my head in disbelief.
Hat Tip: Little Green Footballs
