October 3, 2016
Iran's head of Judiciary, Sadegh Amoli Larijani, recently said that the Judiciary has no plans to abolish the death penalty and called on Iranian judicial officials to not hesitate in carrying out the execution sentences for alleged drug offenders. Amoli Larijani's official remarks were made on Thursday September 29 in Mashhad, at the 13th annual conference for Iran's revolutionary, military and public courts.
According
to Iranian state run media, Fars, in his remarks Amoli Larijani
referred to drug traffickers as "merchants of death" and rejected calls
for the complete abolition of the death penalty for crimes related to
drug trafficking. "We should
not wait three years (before carrying out the execution sentences),
until the prisoner learns how to pray in order to get amnesty...It is
offensive to say that the death penalty is ineffective. If it wasn't for
the strictness of the Judiciary, the situation would be much worse."
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