Mohammad Bijeh, 24, dubbed "the Tehran desert vampire" by Iran's press, was flogged 100 times before being hanged.....has Eugene Volokh jumping for joy.
A brother of one of his young victims stabbed him as he was being punished. The mother of another victim was asked to put the noose around his neck.
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I have always said that capitol punishment was nothing but revenge and this certainly sounds like revenge to me. Ah!! but it's a deterrent you say. Give me a break. This guy was obviously insane. If you really think this is going to act as a deterrent to another insane killer I have some land to sell you on a five year flood plain.
I have often wondered if death by lethal injection will dampen the enthusiasm for the death penalty. Quietly going to sleep is just not the same as several minutes of smoking flesh in the electric chair or twitching at the end of a rope.
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