{"id":2095,"date":"2014-04-16T21:42:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T21:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-death-penalty-worldwide.pantheonsite.io\/the-death-penalty-in-iran-no-improvement-and-broken-promises\/"},"modified":"2020-06-04T10:29:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T10:29:19","slug":"the-death-penalty-in-iran-no-improvement-and-broken-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/fr\/the-death-penalty-in-iran-no-improvement-and-broken-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death Penalty in Iran \u2013 No Improvement and Broken Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a change in leadership and the introduction of an amended penal code, Iran\u2019s aggressive use of the death penalty continues unabated. Our recent assessment of Iran (which you can read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dpw.law.cornell.edu\/country-search-post.cfm?country=Iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>) confirms that hundreds of people are regularly executed every year.\u00a0 Furthermore, Iran has resumed secretly executing large groups of people, after temporarily halting the practice in 2011 due to international criticism.\u00a0 The number of people executed on one occasion has been as high as 50.<\/p>\n<p>Amendments to the Islamic Penal Code in 2013 did not limit the application of the death penalty.\u00a0 On the contrary, the Penal Code retained the death penalty for most crimes that were previously death-eligible and added a few more.\u00a0 It expanded upon the category of national security crimes, including vaguely worded crimes like \u201csowing corruption\u201d and \u201carmed rebellion,\u201d which further criminalize political dissent.\u00a0 \u00a0The Penal Code also continues to treat some \u201ccrimes\u201d as capital offences even though they do not meet the \u201cmost serious\u201d standard under international law, which requires that capital offenses result in the death of a person.\u00a0 Particularly troubling, the amended Penal Code retains stoning as a possible method of execution for individuals convicted of adultery and apostasy.<\/p>\n<p>Iran continues to be the world\u2019s biggest executioner of child offenders, despite requests from the former head of judiciary in 2003 and 2008 that judges not issue execution verdicts for children under eighteen. Based on reports by non-governmental organizations, we estimate that nineteen juveniles have been executed in the past five years. Although the Iranian government has stated that the amended Penal Code abolishes the execution of children, it only prohibits the execution of children for drug offenses and other \u201cdiscretionary crimes.\u201d\u00a0 Article 91 of the amended Islamic Penal Code permits the execution of juveniles for other offenses, such as crimes under shariah, if judges deem that the juvenile is mature enough to understand the nature and consequences of the offense. Iran Human Rights has reported that just last month, one person was executed for a murder allegedly committed when he was 17. Iran Human Rights, Execution of a minor offender in Iran, <a href=\"http:\/\/iranhr.net\/2014\/03\/execution-of-a-minor-offender-in-iran\">http:\/\/iranhr.net\/2014\/03\/execution-of-a-minor-offender-in-iran<\/a>, Mar. 7, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The new Islamic Penal Code amendments do nothing to improve the administration of the death penalty in Iran.\u00a0 Individuals can be executed for a great number of crimes with minimal due process protections.\u00a0 Iran, regrettably, continues to steer further and further away from compliance with its international human rights obligations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a change in leadership and the introduction of an amended penal code, Iran\u2019s aggressive use of the death penalty continues unabated. Our recent assessment of Iran (which you can read\u00a0here) confirms that hundreds of people are regularly executed every year.\u00a0 Furthermore, Iran has resumed secretly executing large groups of people, after temporarily halting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,73,76,75],"tags":[89,88,81,90],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-fr","category-death-penalty-database-fr","category-advocacy-fr","category-research-fr","tag-death-penalty-news-fr","tag-death-penalty-database-fr","tag-advocacy-fr","tag-research-fr"],"better_featured_image":{"id":917,"alt_text":"alt=\"\"","caption":"","description":"dexc","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1256,"height":837,"file":"2019\/06\/0356_13_111_select-Law-books.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"0356_13_111_select-Law-books-300x200.jpg","width":300,"height":200,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/0356_13_111_select-Law-books-300x200.jpg"},"large":{"file":"0356_13_111_select-Law-books-1024x682.jpg","width":1024,"height":682,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/0356_13_111_select-Law-books-1024x682.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"0356_13_111_select-Law-books-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/0356_13_111_select-Law-books-150x150.jpg"},"medium_large":{"file":"0356_13_111_select-Law-books-768x512.jpg","width":768,"height":512,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/0356_13_111_select-Law-books-768x512.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":1970,"source_url":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/0356_13_111_select-Law-books.jpg"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"external_author":"Shubra Ohri","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2115,"href":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions\/2115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}