Killing children
Amnesty International calls Iran on its bullshit.
Scores of youths in Iran are languishing on death row for crimes committed under the age of 18, said Amnesty International in a damning new report published today. The report debunks recent attempts by Iran’s authorities to whitewash their continuing violations of children’s rights and deflect criticism of their appalling record as one of the world’s last executioners of juvenile offenders.
Growing up on death row: The death penalty and juvenile offenders in Iran reveals that Iran has continued to consign juvenile offenders to the gallows, while trumpeting as major advances, piecemeal reforms that fail to abolish the death penalty against juvenile offenders.
“This report sheds light on Iran’s shameful disregard for the rights of children. Iran is one of the few countries that continues to execute juvenile offenders in blatant violation of the absolute legal prohibition on the use of the death penalty against people under the age of 18 years at the time of the crime,” said Said Boumedouha, Deputy Director of Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Programme.
Isn’t it interesting how theocratic countries treat people like shit. Isn’t it interesting how theocrats worship a god who thinks human beings are shit. What a loathsome god it is, that prefers punishing people in horrible ways over making people better.
“Despite some juvenile justice reforms, Iran continues to lag behind the rest of the world, maintaining laws that permit girls as young as nine and boys as young as 15 to be sentenced to death.”
Nice touch that girls have it so much worse.
Isn’t it also interesting how often America has to point to such theocracies to make the case that we’re in some way not horrible. (It was literally two days ago that the SCOTUS said, “Y’know, maybe let’s not sentence 13-year-olds to life without parole.” And it was only in the past decade that the ruling came that said that death sentences could not be ordered for 16- and 17-year-olds.)
Of course, these abyssmal laws were in those states where the theocratic impulse is strongest, so it certainly doesn’t undermine your point.
Yes, it is. We’re more like Iran on issues of punishment and rehabilitation than we are like other liberal democracies. It makes me puke.
9 year old girls.
On the one hand, they don’t respect women enough to give them much in the way of adult freedoms, and yet they hold little girls to the same level of responsibility of grown men.