Consent of a victim’s family saved a prisoner from execution
13-November-2019
Category: executions
Breathing in Confinement- In the city of Zanjan, a prisoner sentenced to retaliation (Qisas), was saved from execution.
According to IRNA, “the case was in Sentence Execution Department in the first branch of Zanjan Prosecutor’s Office, through which “H.B” convicted of “deliberate murder” of ”A. M”, had been sentenced to retaliation” said Hujjat al-Islam Esmaeil Sadeghi, Chief Justice of Zanjan Province, on Monday November 11, 2019.
He mentioned that as a result of repeated follow-ups and efforts of Zanjan’s prosecutor, the victim’s relatives declared their definite consent toward the convicted prisoner.
Sadeghi Niyarki added: This has been the 11th case of obtaining the consent of the victim’s relatives and saving the murderer from retaliation in the first eight months of the current year in Zanjan province.