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Dear Dariush A

In my opinion, this is a systematic effort by IRI to make examples of the victims (like the three in this video) so that no one dares to oppose her.

What you see is barbaric since the victims are suffering for a few minutes chocking to death, a cruel and unjust punishment.  Yes, I personally prefer a bullet to chocking to death, but these animals appear to enjoy it.

For a proper hanging (The history of judicial hanging in Britain 1735 - 1964), since 1872, the person's weight, height and strength were put in an equation to determine the proper height to drop for an instantaneous death.  Unfortunately, in 31 years IRI has been incapble of performing a humane hanging, although they have had plenty of practice at it.

I wonder if any of you

I wonder if any of you knows why they are being hanged? Are they innocent or murderers? If they are murderers, would you still oppose the execution? if so, what about the victims? Or do you just feel bad to watch it done by hanging and you would be OK with fire arms. injection, electric chair or even tickling them to death. 

How do they execute criminals in your country? Are they tickled to death? 

Khar said, that is not efficient.

I wonder how many people have been stoned to death in Iran? 

I have heard that some people rather to be stoned to death than go to Federal prisons in USA. Some even hang themselves in prison.  I find it hard to believe.  How could that be? They have no sharia laws and are so humanitarian and democratic.

Now, you are not going to deny that, are you?

Amir

This is what Shariati and his gang were cooking for Iran. People were so stupid to pick this over the Shah. Real freedom! What a bunch of total asses.

I hope the new generation is not so stupid as the 1979 people.

VPK

With respect to that individual who calls her/himself Niloufar Parsi and her fellow West-residing IRI Groupies: there is a direct correlation between how much they beat their chests over Sheytan-e Bozorg and Sheytan-e Koochik and the lengths they will go to defend the IRI (including claiming that the IRI is "top ten" in many fields of science and technology--LOOLLL).

IRI's penal code

Article 102 states that men will be buried up to their waists and women up to their breasts for the purpose of execution by stoning.

Article 104 states, with reference to the penalty for adultery, that the stones used should "not be large enough to kill the person by one or two strikes; nor should they be so small that they could not be defined as stones".

Ugly Affair

here is SP and the other IRR cyber groupies. Then they beg the diaspora to help the maintain the IRI. NP was just telling me on another thread that "IRI is Iran". Sorry lady not in my book.

Peace my a**. The only peace you get with this gang is the peace of the dead.

this is not hanging - it is chocking victims to death

In a true hanging, the height needed for instantaneous death via a drop is calculated.  These poor souls were chocked to death. 

Barbaric bastards.

This is

Islam in action. Not radical Islam but normal Sharia. For all who get worked up and deny it: just read on Islam. This is the real true version

Only a sadistic and psychotic individual who is purely

driven by hate and idealogy would defend something like this.  Everything else I wanted to say has already been said amply and thoroughly by all the rational and patriotic Iranians here. 

Barbaric

I never forget the first time I saw a similar video of public executions in Iran on Iranian.com; it was absolutely surreal and disturbing.  It was as if I wasn't supposed to see that.  I can't even imagine what it would be like to see it realtime as it's happening. 

I believe the guard (closer to the camera) in this makeshift video had the same horrifiying feeling!  He couldn't stand it and turned around. Many of the spectators though sounded jubilant, which brings me to my next point:

The reason the US abandoned public executions a long time ago is that the judicial system (with the help of the medical/psychiatric community) came to the conclusion that witnessing these barbaric acts forever changes people's mental well-being: those who are faint-hearted will develop anxiety, depression and despair; the tougher audience develops a stronger tolerance, which can eventually lead them to perform violent acts. 

Nevertheless, I hope all the states in this country eventually abandon capital punishment because it is simply inhumane.

Just like I thought...

The self proclaimed major of the stateless terrorist IRI completely avoids the real questions, and diverts to what the US is or isn't or was or wasn't doing.

Public hangings are barbaric, as are public stonings- period.  Not to mention amputations and so on. And the worst of it all is, none of this is done with due process with the defendant getting a fair trial with transparency.  So these are not executions, these are just murders.  But then since when does the stateless self proclaimed major have a problem with murder.

Like I said, he is just doing his job, and a crappy one at that.  What do you expect from a stateless person who has no regard for the people of Iran or their rights.  All he cares about is the rights of those with the guns and the gallows.

A true hypocrite.  But in the US, unlike the rapist republic occupying Iran, even such a hypocrite as a right to free speech.  So let him keep making an utter fool of himself.

SP,

how about the tie you up for a while, and see if you like it LOL

Has any one mentioned Lorestan has one of the highest rates of

unemployment in Iran. It might sounds a bit exaggerated but the unemployment rate there is up in some 30%.

All these acts of violence and public dispaly by IR, since day one have only and only one aim in mind: TO INTIMIDATE AND SUBDUE THE PUBLIC. The net effect of it all: guess what, it never really worked. Since the electoral coup of 2009, people's response has been outright defiance. In one case, last year right after Ashora, they rescued the people to be hanged  from the gallows.

TOOP, TANK, BASIJI DIGAR ASAR NADARD.

P.S. Regrading our resident wacko SP, I humbly suggest to all, to just totally ignore him for as long as possible. Should be interesting to see how zero reponse works!

Civilization

Ignoring the vile comments made by the IRI apologist, I think its important to highlight the contribution the islamists are making to civilization, in particular to Iranian society.  

I mean is this it folks?  You kill people slowly on a street corner and Iranians (and the rest of the world) have to look up to the perpetrators of such acts as leaders of their country?  They are nothing but a mafia gang wearing the guise of religion.

Also I note the posts discussed costs.  It is cheap for the islamists to kill people in Iran - that is true - and many innocents have been killed because of the cheap mullahs not bothering with due process etc.

Finally let us not forget that the islamists not only kill like this, but they also kill in secret at night behind closed doors (e.g. mass killings of 1988 - at least 3000 innocents; 1979-1984 - at least 40000 innocent, brave and capable Iranians killed for revenge or to protect the power for the mullahs). And lets not forget when it is inconvenient to have any legal process they go on the street and shoot random innocent people (e.g. 2009 election). 

This is what the mullahs and their islamist supporters have contributed to Iranian civilization - barbarity and backwardness. 

Pirouzi said:"Let people

Pirouzi said:"Let people see it for what it is. Then maybe their attitudes might change." Good backtracking, P!

Um, let me get this right:. . .you think it should be an unalienable right of Americans to watch people strangulate in public which you promulgate in the interest of ending receptivity for the death penalty as law . . .

that, even though the practictioner par excellance, that erstwhile country you call home-but-never-home, namely Iran, continues to execute people, (even children) publicly and unabashedly without any thought other than that they fulfill psuedo-Sharia and scare the crap out the people they oppress. 

On top of this, your country of actual residence, the US, which DID gave up public execution and hangings 74 years ago, is still in your gigantic estimation, socially backward because they actually DID stop hanging people publicly and made the few executions performed, private.

Pirouzi, you are an enviable scholar, a leading light that dare not share his name. I hope you write a book someday. BTW, how much does being a clack for Qom really pay these days?.

More than 70 Mash'had inmates were unexpectedly executed

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Terroristic statements made by this entity "sargord pirrooz"...

Are quite flabbergasting. If he is a real person, I'd seriously worry for the safety of people around him. This deranged character  is so full of hatred for humanity and clearly declares his desire for watching other people being murdered. He needs to be detained indefinitely in a mental institution for public safety.

Can someone call the FBI before he goes postal or we have another major terrorist incident???

Again Sargord, do you have anything 4 benefits of "Public" CP?

Everything is sacred

For anyone interested,

For anyone interested, here's the YouTube URL to the film Albert Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman.

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_Ioz16l2lw&feature...

It's a good movie that highlights many of the issues related to capital punishment, including technical aspects, before the practice was banned in the UK.

sargord =

I am assume sargord was member of IRI,to me being sargord in IRI is= to gorohban in IIAF or IIAA.

As a Muslim I enjoy watching life leaves a human body

As Human I hate my self even saw this.

IRI do this in public to show to their supports this is what will happen to us when we loss power so lie , fight hard and kill as many you can may be they back off. Regardless of what their crime was this is not something to be happening in public. 

Sargord "public" executions are affairs of the ugly

Handsome, which part of "public" executions are wrong, don't you get?  If it was right countries such as US who practiced them wouldn't stop them decades ago.

What do you think remains in the mind of a child whose father takes him to these public executions?  That child is more likely to become a criminal with no value for life.

I know what makes you dig in your heels on this subject.  You just want more attention to satisfy the drought of attention that you experience in real life.  Keep it up! Explain more about the public "CP" and your views on the "cheapest" way to execute.  You didn't explain your IDF uniform. 

Everything is sacred

بی‌شرفترین دولت روی زمین

بی‌شرفترین دولت روی زمین.  لنگ خر تو پای هر کسی‌ که طرفداری این حکومت بی‌عدالت را می‌کند.  توف به روتون که وجدان ندارید.

Mr. Sargord Pirouz

I am against capital punishment and specially against barbaric capital punishment.

It's a matter of respecting and civility. The way it's done in Iran is old fashion barbaric. One would expect hanging and stoning coming from Taliban.

There is an image in my head from a film about an older woman being hanged, as she struggled by moving her legs... Cruel.

"Sargord"

You are full of horse manure for more reasons than I have time to enumerate. Here's a partial list related to the topic at hand, namely the IRI's punishments:

1) The IRI executes people for non-capital offenses (including, among others, adultery via stoning)

2) The IRI is currently the world's biggest executioner of juvenile offenders (and 2nd overall after China, which has almost 20 times Iran's population); IRI accounts for two-thirds of the global total of such executions.

3) There is no comparison between the IRI and the U.S. (or any even halfway decent government for that matter) because the IRI prescribes a whole host of savage punishments, such as flogging, for acts that no decent human being in the year 2010 would consider a "crime" worthy of flogging (such as sex before marriage)

What's ugly is your defense of the IRI barbarites under the guise of being "anti death penalty". Khar Khodeti. Cheers  .-)

Executions are ugly affairs.

Executions are ugly affairs. You notice in this video, many of the law enforcement officers aren't even interested in seeing it taking place, their focus is elsewhere.

This happens in the US, also. There are times where victims are allowed to view the execution, and some of them have surprised themselves in being disappointed at what they see.

Personally, I think if the general public in the US were to see executions taking place, they might change their mind on the issue of CP. But as it stands now, CP is popular in the US, and there are activists seeking an expansion of the penalty, as well as restrictions on the appeal processes. (They've had very mixed results.)

I will say this, the Iranian practice of CP costs hundreds of thousands of dollars less than individual US equivalents. And the execution, itself, is also a lot cheaper.

Last "public" hanging in US was 74 years ago.

Rainey Bethea was hanged on August 14, 1936. It was the last public execution in America. 

Almost 74 years to the day. 

Everything is sacred

Insane Sargord

Countries don't usually work in harmony and do not create or abolish certain practices and policies in a coordinated fashion. Each country does it on its own right!!? So "until it happens" in USA, "i am not going to condemn it elsewhere" is as a senselss statement as it can get. For all we know the controversy over this may never end and i just don't see lobbying against it as powerful as it should be.

They also do not HANG people in public or private. It is done via lethal injection 9 out of 10 times, or in some rare instances by electric chair. and there are only a few states who do this kinda thing and as far as i know it is totally banned in europe!!

Yeah. let's change attitudes by exposing them to barbarity in any shape or form. That ought to teach them a lesson. Who the hell is this guy? A reincarnarnate version of Hitler?

Terrorist Stateless Major

is obviously against capital punishment- that is the fate that his stateless terrorist masters might face when their rapist government is overthrown.

Of course in the meantime, he will hypocritically and shamelessly come here and perpetuate completely BS comparisons with the US.  Perhaps he can explain how open and transparent the trials of those who get executed in Iran are, whether the evidence in their trials are public record, and whether the defense can appeal the sentences in a trial where any member of the public can attend and give testimony.

Perhaps he would care to even elaborate the types of charges lead to capital punishment in the US?  Does the US have the charge "war with God"? Does the US stone women for adultery?  Does the US have a "revolutionary court", and the US military have a "political office" that can direct the government how to set policy and what to do with any (even peaceful) opposition?  Does the US round up large number of peaceful protestors on their own soil, take them to prison, rape them, and require them to "repent" before getting released?  Does the US take young men who protested peacefully, execute them after a secret trial by a revolutionary court, and then charge the family for the bullets?  Does the US execute thousands of people in a few days for the crime of just saying they are a member of an organization, on the orders of one man?  A man who himself says he does not care about his country?

I will tell you one thing the US does.  It allows those who are critical of it to live in peace, speak freely, believe what they want, read what they want, and open debate, even for hypocrite fascists like the self proclaimed major.  Something that this and other stateless hypcrites like him take full advantage of, while denying this right to all Iranians in Iran.

I wonder what this self proclaimed major who has never served Iran would say about these things.  This hypocrite indeed would say nothing about these things, and he will just shut up about it.  What do you expect from a stateless terrorist.  He has a job to do and is doing it.  Very poorly of course, because he is not convincing anybody of anything.

Disgusting and barbaric.

And even more disgusting are those who claim we do likewise in America.  Perhaps they should move to Iran, or other wonderful islamic nations.   I propose that the entire Berkley folks move to Saudi Arabia, or better yet to Iran.