Drinking Alcohol in Iran

When it comes to the death penalty, I am all for executing murderers. Sometimes driven by emotion, there are heinous crimes for which I wouldn't mind using capital punishment, but that isn't a position I can logically endorce.

Well, lets say, I don't like the idea of punishment for drinking alcohol, much less execution.

Iran sentences two to death for drinking alcohol

Iran is to execute two people caught drinking alcohol for a third time after judges upheld the Islamic republic's strict laws on liquor consumption, media on Monday quoted a top judicial official as saying.



Hassan Shariati, the judiciary chief of the northeastern province of Khorasan-e Razavi, announced the sentence in an ISNA news agency report that was published by the Donya-e-Eqtesad daily.


The two unidentified people were repeat offenders, having been twice before convicted of drinking and lashed 80 times each, Shariati said.


He said the death penalty for their third conviction had been validated by Iran's Supreme Court.


Under Iran's interpretation of Islamic sharia law, imposed after its 1979 revolution, a first and second conviction on the charge of drinking alcohol is punishable by a maximum sentence of 80 lashes.

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