After 7 years of imprisonment, an inmate saved from execution
31-October-2019
Category: executions
Breathing in Confinement – A prisoner on the charge of Murder, was forgiven by the victim’s next of kins after spending 7 years in a prison in Tehran.
According to Rokna News, being forgiven by the victim’s family members, an inmate who was previously sentenced to death, was saved just before the execution.
Based on the report, a 21-year-old man was arrested in Tehran in 2012 on the charge of murdering an American woman. He was later sentenced to death by the second branch of the Tehran Penal Court 1.
The verdict was upheld after a review by the Supreme Court’s judges. The defendant, however, paying the blood money, managed to obtain the victim’s family pardon and returned to life shortly before being hung.