ISBN: 979-8-9868904-0-1

Language: English

Size: 5½ x 8½

Publication Year: 2021

Edition: 1

Weight: 1

ISBN: 9798986890401

ISBN: 979-8986890401

Volume 1: 84 pages

Published in: USA

Special Features: This book is intended to introduce the capital punishment system of Iran. The death penalty in Iran is familiar to most readers because capital punishment exists in the domestic law of most Islamic nations, but the ways by which these states employ capital punishment are varied and inconsistent. With the advent of Islamic fundamentalism in the 1970s, more and more Islamic states began objecting to international norms for human rights and abolition of the death penalty, as being contrary to sharia, the historically formulated traditional law of Islam. The question is why contemporary Islamic penal system of Iran is so cruel and short on mercy when in secular criminal justice systems efforts are made to guarantee that prisoners are treated humanely. This study reaches back to classical Islam and contemporary use of sharia law in Iran to trace how and why capital punishment in Iran is different from the United States

Subject: Law