If you survive being executed by the state, should you gain a reprieve? Why?

Question

There is a man in Iran who has survived a hanging, after being sentenced to death for possession of crystal meth. He was declared dead by doctors, and taken to the local morgue. When his family went to collect his body for burial, he was found to be still breathing. He has been taken to a hospital to recover, and, says a judge, once he is "well enough", he will be hanged again.

Two questions really; Does he deserve a reprieve? Why?

And why do you have to be 'well enough" to be executed (this applies in the US too, where death row inmates have a medical prior to execution)?

Answer 1

No. This man should have never been sentenced to hang in the first place. ''possession of crystal meth''?? It seems that this man was only hurting himself. This is why we shouldn't have any relations with Iran. They need to start treating their citizens better. They also need to stop their chanting ''Death to America'' and ''Death to Israel''...and Death to any other country! The UN should keep sanctions on Iran until they stop their hate speech, stop supporting terrorists, and stop treating their own people INHUMANELY. If this man had brutally murdered someone, I would say yes, he deserves to be re-hanged, until they get it right, but he hasn't hurt anyone (other than maybe himself) to my knowledge. I think we have laws against hanging {executing} ill people (psychically, or mentally ill).

Answer 2

When the death sentence was passed in a British court, the pronouncement was "....hanged by the neck until dead"................so If a person was duly hanged and survived, then surely the sentence hasn't been carried out, and therefore the whole procedure must be carried out again? Nowadays I suppose a man or woman having the same experience would gain a reprieve using the cruel and unjust punishment law.

Having said that, it is in Iran, where it probably goes down as a fair and just punishment, after all, public beheadings and stoning to death are all "OK" so hanging someone twice probably wont raise any eyebrows over there.

Answer 3

When footpads and villains were strung up in England .



On the odd occasion they survived it was deemed that the sentence had been carried out.



It wasn't the defendants fault the executioner had blundered. The defendant was trnsported or reprived.



The English are a sporting race.

Answer 4

In a theocracy like Iran, one would have thought that the thinking would be that Allah had decreed that the survivor of the hanging was forgiven and therefore should be released.

Answer 5

like every job you learn by your mistakes and make amendments to get the job done,but these peeps are so simple they cant tie a shoe lace

Answer 6

It just seems really evil somehow to try again.



Let's call it God's Will and keep them in jail instead.

Answer 7

Why should he get a reprieve? a botched hanging didn't make his crime any the less.

Answer 8

No.



You would still be guilty as charged.

Answer 9

You can't survive being executed. To be executed is to be killed.