Iran hanged a 26-year-old man for a second time Wednesday months after a earlier execution was halted half a minute in, an NGO mentioned.
Ahmad Alizadeh was arrested in October 2018 on a homicide cost, which he denied, and was sentenced to demise, Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR), which tracks executions in Iran, mentioned in an announcement.
His demise sentence was carried out on April 27 in Ghezel Hesar jail in Karaj exterior Tehran. However simply 28 seconds into the hanging he was introduced down from the gallows when the sufferer’s household out of the blue shouted “forgiveness”. His “lifeless” physique was efficiently resuscitated and the execution was halted, IHR mentioned.
Below Iran’s sharia legislation, a sufferer’s household can ask for blood cash to spare the lifetime of the perpetrator or additionally resolve to forgive. Nevertheless, in lots of circumstances the household of the condemned individual can not afford the sum set and the execution goes forward, in response to activists.
Alizadeh remained below the specter of the demise penalty within the absence of any cope with the sufferer’s household for blood cash.
He was executed once more within the Ghezel Hesar jail on Wednesday morning, IHR mentioned.
“Ahmad Alizadeh, a gifted scholar, was hanged for the second time on fees of homicide, which he denied and claimed he confessed to below torture,” mentioned IHR director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, denouncing the “execution machine of the Iranian regime”.
Activists accuse Iran of utilizing the demise penalty as a way to instil concern all through society, significantly within the wake of 2022-2023 nationwide protests which shook the Islamic authorities.
In accordance with IHR, 2024 is seeing a brand new surge in executions, with at the very least 166 executions recorded in October alone, the very best quantity recorded in a single month for the reason that group started documenting executions in 2007.
Activists together with Amnesty Worldwide say Iran carries out extra annual executions than any nation aside from China, for which no dependable figures can be found.
