Iran Takes A Big Bite Out Of Crime - Publicly Executes Seven Rapists And Two Drug Smugglers

Published: August 3, 2007, 6:05 am

Forget about the famous crime dog McGruff - Iran really knows how to take a bite out of crime.According to a story in the New York Times, the ISNA reported that a public hanging of seven men convicted of rape took place on Wednesday August 1st, 2007 in the northeastern city of Mashad. Five of the men were hanged in one part of town, and the remaining two in a different part of town.On the same day two other men convicted of armed smuggling of narcotics were hanged in prison in the southeastern city of Zahedan.The state-run television news also showed the five men hanging from the gallows under a banner that said, Carrying out justice equals increasing security. The Mashad chief prosecutor, Gholam Hossein Emaili, said that all seven men had been charged with abduction of women, theft and rape.And executing predators is quite common in Iran. Last week 12 people were hanged at Evin Prison in Tehran for rape, criminal acts, abduction and selling drugs, said Tehran's

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