True Justice: Serial killer flogged, stabbed, hanged

[Gil]

I'll have to admit that they did a great job. Wish the law was similar here:


Serial killer flogged, stabbed, hanged


An Iranian serial killer convicted of kidnapping and murdering 21 people, most of them children, was publicly flogged and hanged south of Tehran on Wednesday before thousands of spectators, an AFP reporter at the scene said.

Mohammad Bijeh, branded "the vampire of the desert" in the Iranian press, was lashed 100 times, stabbed in the back by a furious brother of one victim before a blue nylon rope was placed around his neck by the mother of another murdered child.

The 22-year-old killer, who remained calm and kept silent throughout the punishment, was then hauled into the air by a crane to cries from the crowd of "make him twist".

"Dance and think of what you did to our kids," shouted one father, as Bijeh was throttled to death over several minutes. Hanging by a crane does not involve the neck being broken.

Bijeh and his accomplice, Ali Baghi, were arrested in September 2004. Over a period of more than a year, they reportedly lured children into the desert by saying they were going to dig out rabbits or foxes from their burrows.

The pair — who both worked in a brickworks — reportedly stunned their victims with blows from a stone, sexually abused them and buried the bodies in shallow graves in the desert south of Tehran.

Both were initially sentenced to hang, but in January the Supreme Court ruled that Baghi should instead serve 15 years behind bars.

[Agrippa]

I just hope this guy was really guilty.

[Carnyx]

Originally Posted by Manji

"Dance and think of what you did to our kids," shouted one father, as Bijeh was throttled to death over several minutes. Hanging by a crane does not involve the neck being broken.

A bullet is cleaner. Muslims are definitely barbarians and cruels.

[Agrippa]

Originally Posted by M.Duchemin

A bullet is cleaner. Muslims are definitely barbarians and cruels.

But I can understand the parents. I saw such an individual in a documentary, this guy was so cruel and perverted that a bullet seemed to be to easy for him...of course the German television said he was "sick and shouldnt have been killed, wouldnt have been in the late DDR blabla..."

Of course the primary goal of executions should be getting rid of such scum once and for all and without any possibility of further harm for the group, so a bullet is ok, but for the parents, if I would be in their shoes...that would have been the minimum.

[Carnyx]

Yes I can't imagine how it is terrible for the parents.
If no death penalty, the best solution would be to maintain the murderer in live at all cost and make him regret what he've done untill the end of his pitiful life (confrontation with victims, relatives) in some jailhouses with forced work. I don't know exactly what, but it could be a sort of moral torture like in greek myth.