IRAN: PUBLIC EXECUTION OF A PERSON WITH MENTAL ILLNESS

A prisoner was hanged in public at Iranian city of Taft (Central Iran) on 29 November 2018.
The man was suffering from mental disability and had previously been hospitalized in a Psychiatric hospital, according to the Iranian media reports.
According to Iranian media, the man whose first name identified as Kamran, was suffering from mental disability and was hospitalized in a Psychiatric hospital before committing a murder.
Kamran was 19 when he murdered a 36 old woman; and told the prosecutors that he loved the victim. “I expressed my love to her and she refused. I decided to take revenge,” the prisoner had said in his confessions.