Amnesty InternationalIranian juvenile offender Amir Amrollahi has been sentenced to death for the second time, after a retrial and following a decade in prison. The court rejected the conclusion of an official forensic report which had said he had not attained “mental growth and maturity” at the time of the crime, in November 2005, when he was 16 years old.
Juvenile offender Amir Amrollahi, aged 26, who had been first sentenced to death in August 2007 in connection with the fatal stabbing of a boy during a fight, was sentenced to death again in November 2015. Branch One of Criminal Court No. 1 of Fars Province noted the expert opinion of an official forensic commission, composed of two general psychiatrists and one child and adolescent psychiatrist, which had concluded that he did not have mental maturity at the time of the crime. However, the court ruled that this opinion was “inconsistent” with Amir Amrollahi’s statements in detention. According to the court, the use of phrases such as “I thrust the knife deep into the victim’s chest …” clearly showed that Amir Amrollahi had inflicted the stab wound [when he was] in a healthy mental and emotional state and fully aware of the kind of murder weapon used, and of the sensitivity of the area of the body targeted.
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