Tehran – In an emotionally charged moment on Tuesday, the parents of a 17 year-old murder victim granted his killer a last minute reprieve by removing the noose from his neck and sparing his life during a public execution.
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INDEPENDENT.co.uk (http://ind.pn/1lfJtkw) reports that in line with “qisas”—a sharia law of retribution that prescribes “an eye for an eye,” the parents of Abdollah Hosseinzadah were poised to push away the gallows chair from their son’s killer Balal Abdullah when they had a change of heart.
Abdullah was convicted of stabbing their son to death in 2007 in a local marketplace when both boys were 17.
With all delays exhausted, an emotional Abdullah had the noose placed around his neck, but at the last minute Hosseinzadah’s mother instead slapped his face and then signaled her forgiveness.
Hosseinzadah’s father then stepped forward and lifted the noose back over the convicted killer’s head.
Hosseinzadah’s father, Abdolghani, said later that his dead son visited his wife three days earlier in a dream, asking that she not retaliate over his death.
Balal Abdullah was subsequently returned to prison to serve out the remainder of his sentence.
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A very human story.
Nothing human about setting loose a murderer to go and kill again. Perverted justice!
They pardoned his death sentence, but he went straight to prison.
If we should hang all murderers here in our country crime will drop big time and we can save billions in expenses feeding them in prison