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It's times like this that I am happy I live in a country where the death penalty has been abolished.
Indeed, the last person to be excuted in the United Kingdom was a vulnerble man with learning disabilities were he was eventually found to be innocent of the crime he committed and suspicions of the police using such a person to secure a conviction.
That to me is such a strong argument that such powers should never be given to our judicial system ever again.
I find it strange a country which has origins back to some of the earliest civilizations of man, such as Babylon, still practices the same kind of brutality several thousand years later as if somehow a clock on progress came to a halt then was forced to turn backward. Strange to think Iran was once a thriving island of democracy in the region at the beginning of the 20th century with its constitutional revolution.