http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24563453
Just in case you don’t follow the link, although I actively encourage you to – here’s a synopsis of the story. The Iranian authorities hung a 37 year old convicted drug smuggler for 12 minutes and, having had a doctor declare him dead, sent his body to the morgue. In the morgue it became apparent that the chap had survived. An incredible outcome, I am sure you’ll agree.
It gets more unbelievable - the man is being nursed back to health in order to be hung again at a later date! I am flabbergasted and struggle to come to terms with the cruelty that is so clearly evident.
If the authorities want this man dead then how can it be ethically appropriate to nurse him back to health first? Frankly I think it’s inhumane – a lethal injection in the morgue would have been kinder.
Amnesty International is understandably urging the Iranian authorities to give the man a stay of execution.
My observations:
Hanging for 12 minutes is an extreme sentence for this man and I think he has paid his debt to society. He survived; instead of the ‘stay’ should he not go free?
For a society that is ultra-religious, does no one believe that a higher being may have been looking on this chap with benevolence? His survival is certainly miraculous. Why is no one arguing that ‘it wasn’t his time to go’ and ‘there must be a higher purpose for him to serve’?
The doctor in this story might be better suited to working in a shop.
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