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Barbarism: Photos From Today's Executions in Iran

Warning: Don't look at these photos if you are squeamish about death by hanging.

From earlier today in Iran: The barbarism of the death penalty is brought home in these 25 photos, published today by the Fars News Agency in Iran. Four young men in their 20's were executed by hanging in public. The photos start with the men alive and being led to slaughter. The crowds watching are huge. They end with the men being cut down and put in body bags. There are close-ups of their faces as they are hanged. Photos by a different news agency here. [More...]

The men had been charged with breaking into a private orchard in June and raping the women after abducting them. Iran's Supreme Court took less than 45 days to uphold the verdicts.

And how can Iran let little kids (like this one, safe photo) watch? Iran Human Rights is asking the international community to respond to the practice. In the last 12 months, 481 people have been been executed in Iran, mostly for drug offenses.

Yesterday, Iran conducted raids on suspected drug traffickers, arresting 200. Check out the photos of a 2010 raid. Last month, Iran executed 22 drug offenders at a prison -- by hanging.

In the you can't make this stuff up department: Iranian parliament members today criticized U.S. police for violating the human rights of the Occupy Wall Street protesters. One member said "the fact that the American leaders call the protestors hooligans indicates their racist and inhumane view which is common in all the capitalist countries." Yet on Sunday Iranian authorities inflicted 74 lashes on a student who "wrote an insulting letter to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in which he criticized the president for cracking down on student demonstrators after the controversial 2009 election."

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    I'm an absolutist... (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by Romberry on Wed Oct 12, 2011 at 07:48:33 PM EST
    ...when it comes to capital punishment, as in I oppose it absolutely. But we execute (sometimes probably innocent) people here, and in some states, hanging and firing squads remain options. Guess what I'm saying is that the whole biblical lesson about worrying over the mote in another's eye while we have a beam in our own seems to apply.

    Iran is Iran. Different law. Different culture. We have our own issues. (Troy Davis anyone?) Doesn't mean I condone what they did or what they continue to do. I don't. But like I said, we have our own issues.

    Suspect I am "squeamish" about (5.00 / 1) (#2)
    by oculus on Wed Oct 12, 2011 at 07:53:41 PM EST
    viewing any video of a living person becoming a dead person.  

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    I didn't link to videos (none / 0) (#3)
    by Jeralyn on Wed Oct 12, 2011 at 08:23:31 PM EST
    just photos.

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    Iran again. (5.00 / 1) (#9)
    by lentinel on Thu Oct 13, 2011 at 05:09:11 AM EST
    I condemn Iran for this pract