PressTV{ Iran’s Minister of Justice Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi says the convicted drug trafficker who survived a hanging will not be executed for a second time.
“The convict who survived execution is currently on a ventilator, and if he survives, it won’t be expedient to re-execute him,” Pour-Mohammadi said on Tuesday.
The 37-year-old man, identified as Alireza M., was convicted by an Iranian court of possessing a kilogram of crystal meth and was sentenced to death by hanging in the city of Bojnurd in northeastern Iran.
On October 9, he was taken from his cell to the gallows, where the judge who had issued the order read out the verdict.
The convict hung from the noose for 12 minutes and was pronounced dead by the attending doctor, the judge and the prison head. The body of the convict was taken to a morgue for delivery the following day to his relatives.
A day later, however, staff at the morgue discovered that he was still breathing.
He is now recovering in hospital.
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