Maybe someone in the media can stop licking Barack Obama's boots long enough to ask what he thinks about his pals in Iran hanging teeenagers.
I won't be holding my breath.
IRAN has hanged a 17-year-old boy in the western city of Sanandaj in defiance of international conventions prohibiting the execution of minors, local media has reported.It appears at least a dozen hangings have been carried out this week in Iran
Mohammad Hassanzadeh, who was convicted of killing a 10-year-old boy in 2006, was executed in the Sanandaj prison today, the Kargozaran newspaper has reported.
The execution came even though Iran's judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi had advised the local court to "settle the issue through reconciliation" with the victim's family.
"None of our efforts to reach an agreement with the victim's family was successful and therefore the sentence was carried out on Tuesday morning," an unnamed local judicial official was quoted as saying by the paper.
Under Islamic sharia law, the family can spare a murderer from execution by accepting blood money for the victim's life and leaving the convict to serve a prison sentence.
The human rights watchdog Amnesty International has already condemned the execution as "yet another blatant violation by the Iranian authorities of their international obligations."
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