Collective crime
When a society decides to execute a person, every member of the society becomes a murderer

Ahmad Nikoobin
July 11, 2005
iranian.com

Fifteen people were hung in Mashahad; a young couple were hung in Ispahan. We also read that the barbaric regime of Iran is going to take out someone's eye to punish him, the civilized human being of 21st century cannot ignore all this atrocities. Capital punishment is a sort of homicide, a homicide carried out by a whole society, in the name of every body.

Every day hundreds of people are subjected to the capital punishment, capital punishment is carried out mainly in the most barbaric and reactionary states. For the year 2004, China, Iran and the United States of America were on the top the list of the countries for the barbaric act of social homicide. A few second of deep reflection show that when a society decides to execute a person, it is carrying out a collective crime; every member of the society becomes a murderer.

The great people of Iran have had three big uprising for a better life, in less than a century. Among the basic rights that the Iranian who are for social progress must fight for; is the respect for the life, we must fight all form of capital punishment, no matter where in the world it happens we must protest, we have lost our bravest our most intellectual children under both Shah's and Islamic regimes, hundreds of thousands of us have been subjected to capital punishment, most of us were executed and being executed mainly for our progressive ideas, for outlook.

Our children are killed officially because they are trying to build a new Iranian society with new and progressive traditions, new and progressive human beings. We must not forget those who are executed because they committed ordinary crime either, to me there is no difference no body must be subjected to social homicide, no matter what is his or her guilt. A whole society can not become criminal to take the revenge back, taking revenge is not a tool to stop crime.

Fear of collective homicide can not naturally stop people who fight for a better life stile, those who fight for the progress, it is not a tool to stop crime either. The Iranians who are for the social progress must join their forces to fight capital punishment, it must not be allowed for any reason, in any form, it is high time that we join the civilized world and consider respect of life one of our basic principals. To judge the validity of a political party, we must consider its point view on the respect of the life.

The barbaric regime has not been able to carry out any more stoning as easily as it used to do, this has been achieved manly under domestic pressure and due to work of Iranian political activist abroad who have been able to attract the international attention to the reactionary acts of the regime,we can also force them to stop capital punishment. Let's join of force and do our possible to stop capital punishment in the whole world.