A medical student found guilty of kidnapping and murder has been hanged in public in a stadium of northern Iran. It said the condemned man, named only as Saeed, was executed Wednesday in the town of Amol in Mazandaran province. The family of the victim, who was identified as Mohammad Javad Parvizi, refused to pardon the killer or accept blood money, as permitted under Islamic Sharia laws. Blood money in Iran is currently fixed at 150 million rials ( nearly $20,000) for killing a man and half that amount for a woman.
I don't think anybody really objects to stretching a murderer's neck. It's the fact that it's the half-time show at the homecoming game that bothers most of us. That, and the cheerleaders. Oh, and they might want to work on that blood money pricing. Us men of the world know that killing a woman is much more of a waste than killing a man... |