29 Mar 2024
Thursday 17 December 2015 - 14:16
Story Code : 192816

Iranian imprisoned woman sacrifices to save cellmate's life from death penalty

Tehran, December 17, The Iran Project- An imprisoned woman devotedthemoney, wasdonatedto pay her own debts after six years of imprisonment, to savingher cellmate's life from the death penalty in a prison in Tehran.

A 34-year-old woman, who had been convicted of murdering her husband in a criminal case about 11 years ago and was expectedto hang on Wednesday morning in Tehrans prison, survived the penalty with her cellmate's sacrifice.

The victims family had earlier pardoned conviction in exchange for3000,000,000 Rials as blood money (three times more than the standard amount in Iran) which was to be provided in a highly limited time.

Only minutes before execution on Wednesday, convicts family and aids succeeded to afford large partof the money and the execution was halted in order to give them more time to affordthe rest of expense.

Ultimately, this was the convicts cellmate who donated the needed money, that earlier was fundraisedto pay her own debts after six years of imprisonment, and survived her cellmate from death.

Under Islamic law, this is the victim's family right to either put the convictto death or pardon him.
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