Iran's hard-line judiciary backed off from the death sentence issued against a history professor, his lawyer said Monday.
Birtukan Mideksa, widely considered to be the country's most charismatic opposition figure, remains in prison, serving a life sentence issued in the aftermath of the disputed elections.
About 5,000 angry students gathered at Tehran University today as protests grew over the death sentence issued to a reformist scholar close to President Mohammad Khatami.
The calm, dispassionate tones of their discussion make its brutal upshot -- a death sentence issued in the name of proletarian justice -- all the more disturbing.
It was the biggest day of demonstrations in two weeks of almost daily protests set off by the death sentence issued for a reformist lecturer, Hashem Aghajari.
Texas Death Penalty The court unanimously vacated a death sentence issued by a Texas court to an Argentine man convicted of a murder committed during a robbery.
According to the grandchildren, the car was unlawfully confiscated by American troops who occupied the estate of Mr. Prym, near the border with Belgium, in 1945 while the industrialist was serving a prison sentence issued by Allied forces.
But the average was 13 years — a full year less than the average sentence issued by the judges who had not seen the testimony about genetics and the brain.
The death sentence, issued on Thursday in Pierce County Superior Court, resulted from Mr. Yates's conviction on Sept. 19 in the murders of two more, Melinda Mercer in 1997 and Connie LaFontaine Ellis in 1998.
The Court of Cassation nullified a seven-year sentence issued two times by the Supreme State Security Court and announced that the highest court itself would hear a new trial starting on Jan . 7
Mohammad Erfan, a judge with Iran's administrative justice court, told Jam-e-Jam: "The sentence issued by the revolutionary court is the death penalty … in such circumstances it should be repeated once again".
