Iran hanged 29 people convicted of drug trafficking, murder and rape in Tehran's Evin prison, in the largest mass execution in the Islamic republic for years, the state broadcaster said...
The latest hangings bring to at least 155 the number of executions reportedly carried out in Iran this year....
Amnesty International reported that in 2007 Iran applied the death penalty more often than any other country apart from China, executing 317 people during the year...
Capital offences in the Islamic republic include murder, rape, armed robbery, drug trafficking and adultery.
Human rights groups have accused Iran of making excessive use of the death penalty but Tehran insists it is an effective deterrent that is carried out only after an exhaustive judicial process.
No respect for traditional values these filthy lefty "human rights groups".
Look, it's very simple - if you don't like their ludicrously barbaric rules, then don't be born in a country hardline theocrats rule with an iron fist! (Or, in the case of western lefties, don't read about such a country.) Why is that so difficult to understand? Why can't "progressives" ever just accept that something terrible is justified merely because that's the way it presently is? Why do they always want to change things that are unfair? If they'd just accept that's the way it is and therefore the way it must always be, QED, then they'd be much happier.
Meanwhile, I'm sure we social conservatives all had similar thoughts when we read that list, didn't we? Man, those Sharia Law guys really know how to do law and order! You can really respect their enthusiasm for doling out brutal medieval punishments to criminals. Including for adultery! That's just awesome.
It's a pity they're fundamentalists on the other side, isn't it? Imagine how well we'd get along if they'd only renounce Mohammed. We could join forces and really bash those lefties about a bit.
Ah well. Maybe one day.