Maryam's daughter, six years-old at the time of the killing, refused to forgive her mother and so was allowed to take part in the execution on March 13 this year. She was executed after being charged with ‘retribution in kind’, known in Iran as ‘Qisas’, or 'an eye for an eye' in the Islamic Republic. Iran Human Rights Director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said: “The Islamic Republic laws make a girl whose father was murdered when she was a child, the executioner of her own mother. The Qisas death sentence has been retained for crimes of murder as part of the Iranian Islamic Penal Code 2019. Qisas death penalties are also in use for juvenile offenders, whilst Sharia law defines the age of criminal responsibility for girls to be 9 years old, and 15 for boys.

Source: Daily Mirror March 24, 2021 02:29 UTC