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Cheese munching, whisky drinking typophile, rides a Lambretta and supports Partick Thistle from a safe distance. Tells bad jokes, and is generally a bit of a know-all.
If you survive being executed by the state, should you gain a reprieve? Why?
There is a man in Iran who has survived a hanging, after being sentenced to death for possession of crystal meth. He was declared dead by doctors, and taken to the local morgue. When his family went to collect his body for burial, he was found to be still breathing. He has been taken to a hospital to recover, and, says a judge, once he is "well enough", he will be hanged again.
Two questions really; Does he deserve a reprieve? Why?
And why do you have to be 'well enough" to be executed (this applies in the US too, where death row inmates have a medical prior to execution)?
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