… and the queer blogosphere is abuzz with the possibility that the sentence might be for consensual homosexual activity.
Regardless of whether or not this is true — it’s hard to tell in Iran what someone’s true crime is — let’s take a look at the punishment: the executions will be carried out by putting each youth in a sack and throwing them off the top of a cliff and into a ravine. … if the person survives, then he is hanged.
Whether they’re gay or not, I think we can all agree that that’s a brutal, inhumane punishment for any crime.
Tags: crime, gay-rights, iran, punishment
Isn’t that similar to how they sentenced women accused of being witches? “We want to kill them, but don’t want to feel too bad about it. Should they survive, however, we’ll make sure that we finish the job to put them out of their misery. That makes us the good guys, right?”
just sad! i can only hope that they don’t have to hang the two men. as much as i am not religious, i pray that god be quick.