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On an autumnal Wednesday earlier this month, Alireza, a 37-year-old man jailed for smuggling drugs and sentenced to death in Iran, woke up to what was supposed to be his last day alive. EXECUTED TWICE: Man Survived Execution Will Be Hanged Again
Outside his cell in Bojnurd prison, in Iran's northern Khorasan province, the gallows were waiting and the countdown had already begun.
Just before sunrise, the guards hooked ropes around his neck and hanged him for possessing a kilo of crystal meth. Exactly 12 minutes later medics pronounced him dead and sent his body for burial.
But in the morgue the next day, something unusual caught the eyes of a worker who was preparing the corpse for family collection: steam in the plastic cover he was wrapped in. He was still alive.
Now, to the dismay of his family, Iranian judicial authorities are waiting for him to make a full recovery before they hang him again, according to the state-run Jam-e-Jam newspaper, which was first to break the news of Alireza's ordeal.
Iran's judiciary has argued that he was sentenced to death, rather than to hanging, and should be re-executed. But human rights activists, already concerned about Iran's high rate of executions, say he should be spared.
A nurse told Jam-e-Jam that Alireza's general health was satisfactory and he was making progress day by day. "We couldn't believe he was still alive when we went to collect his body," a relative told the Iranian newspaper. "More than anyone, his two daughters are very happy."
Mohmmad Erfan, a judge with Iran's administrative justice court, told Jam-e-Jam: "The sentence issued by the revolutionary court is the death penalty in such circumstances it should be repeated once again."
Alireza, whose surname has not been published by the Iranian media to protect his identity, was arrested three years ago for carrying and possessing Shisheh, an Iranian nickname for methamphetamine in the form of crystal, which among many other drugs such as opium is relatively cheap to buy in the Islamic republic. A revolutionary court found him guilty and sentenced him to death.
Under Iranian law, convicts should be conscious and relatively healthy before execution - hanging is delayed for people who are pregnant or in a coma.
When someone is sentenced to death by stoning in Iran, for instance in adultery cases, if they manage to climb out of the ground after being buried up to the neck or somehow survive the ordeal, their life is spared.
As a neighbour of Afghanistan, a leading producer and supplier of the world's drugs, Iran has high rates of drug use, especially among its huge number of young people.
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In order to tackle this, Iranian authorities have launched a campaign, with financial aid from Europe, to crack down on drug smuggling, which has led to an alarming rate of executions in the country.
In recent years, Iran has remained among the five countries with the highest rates of executions. China tops the list.
In 2012, Iran is known to have executed at least 314 people, according to figures released by Amnesty International, but this number could be far below the true number of executions in the country. Iran says most of the executions are related to drug offences.
Since Hassan Rouhani took office in early August as the new president of Iran, at least 125 people have been executed.
"While Rouhani was elected on promises of change and human rights reforms, there have been at least 125 executions since his inauguration on 4 August, with dozens of other prisoners sentenced to death or facing imminent execution," said a joint statement issued by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and the Iran Human Rights Documentation Centre.
Iran's judiciary is independent from Rouhani's government and its chief is appointed by the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Amnesty, which has long campaigned for the abolition of the death penalty globally, said the plan to send Alireza to the gallows again was wrong.
"I am appalled by the ghastly plan to 're-execute' a man who had been hanged, certified as dead and whose body had been turned over to his family before he revived," Amnesty's Drewery Dyke said.
"Drug trafficking is a serious criminal offence and while the authorities need to do their utmost to combat the scourge of drug use in Iran, use of the death penalty is wrong and out of step with international standards.
Carrying it out twice on man who somehow managed to survive 12 minutes of hanging, who was certified as dead and whose body was turned over to his family is simply ghastly. It betrays a basic lack of humanity that sadly underpins much of Iran's justice system.
"History and experience indicates not only that that the death penalty is not working in the fight against drug trafficking and use, but that it has heaped even more misery upon Iranians. None more so than in this appalling instance
source:www.naij.com

it would be cruel and unusual punishment under civilized law
i don't think the iranians are civilized though

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it would be cruel and unusual punishment under civilized law
i don't think the iranians are civilized though

at all,they arent;they still stone People to Death..WTF

How i wish it is been praticised in Nigeria

This is wickedness in the highest order. As he survived the first execution, why not allow him lot

d part dat struck me is d statement "his two daughters were hapy to c he was stil alive" y execute him secund time? please iran, stop dis inhuman act n spare his life if not for nothing but for d sake of his two daughers.

The man don't deserve to die,such practice is called Aluuism.

They still stone people to death?

More than 100 nigerians ve bin executed also. Well, hw does it affect de price of garri in my village?

Nawah oo this iranian judisiary na heavy bad belle oo. Person wey God give second chance, they wan still kill.

Any ways End Time situation.

Just asking' do dey seal meth in nigeria

Ah! Iran seems to be an untapped market. Soon, the usual Nigerian sounding names will soon start getting caught in Tehran.

kingoflag: Ah! Iran seems to be an untapped market. Soon, the usual Nigerian sounding names will soon start getting caught in Tehran.

your brothers have been leading that charge for eons before other nigerians
kingofag!

Why are they treating him when they are still gon kill him? Y not just inject him or stop treatment? I think d 2nd chance he got is 4 a reason and dey shud just allow him go

mehn dis guyz are mean em for leave am.....in the eyes of the law the execution has been carried out and since he survived he should be left alone

dis kind tin cn only hapen in a jihadist country lyk iran.if it was to be in d us or uk,d man wud hv been spared or mayb sentenced to few yrs in imprisonment

onyiri onwu 1 of iran, but bad place for the living immortal, the islamic persians? Mtchew

He should be spared jare.
Man no dey die twice.

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chimex38: .

how much did you rent this space from seun

Dy shd free d man jare afterall na him luck dy shine

awww. Free Alireza! Free Alireza!!

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it would be cruel and unusual punishment under civilized law
i don't think the iranians are civilized though

Google the standard of civilization in Iran and compare it to Nigeria.
If Iran is not civilized then i wonder what Nigeria will be called. Afterall we have our own method of absurdities;
Mob action,
Official corruption,
Official lies( your president will come to a national television and lie to the dismay of the citizens),
these and many more are alien to any civilized countries of the world.

dridowu: Dy shd free d man jare afterall na him luck dy shine

The same emotion that make somebody like Obassanjo and IBB to still be counted among honourable men. They don't play with their laws.

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This Guy iz on some “ DIE ANOTHER DAY ” mission

It is very wrong.
The law (I think) makes no provisions for a second execution.and I think from what I've read,even in the old days if someone survives an execution,his survival is termed an 'act of God' and his life henceforth is his to live

On the other hand,if I were his family,I won't announce his survival.seeing as the govt is very hostile

Oh poor them

The man should be freed

Despite the uncivil and barbaric punishment, am pretty sure my brothers are still there doing the 'white powder' biz

They be like, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN

skimarvel: how much did you rent this space from seun