An Iranian woman died of a heart attack while waiting to be executed, but her body was still hanging so her mother’s mother could watch, according to her lawyer.
Zahra Ismaili was waiting for her turn in the gallows last Wednesday to kill her husband, a senior intelligence agent she had accused of abusing, according to The Times of London newspaper.
According to a message from her lawyer, Omid Moradi, shared by the British newspaper and the Iranian Human Rights Monitor (HRM), fell dead after being forced to watch 16 men hang in front of her.
“Zahra’s heart stopped and she died before she was taken to the gallows,” Moradi reported, saying the official cause of death was listed as “cardiac arrest.”
“They hung his lifeless body and the victim’s mother, Fatemeh Asal-Mahi, gave a personal kick to the feces under her feet so she could see her daughter-in-law’s corpse on the gallows for a few seconds,” he said. write to deleted post since then, according to points of sale.
The body was hanged in the morning at Rajai Shahr Prison, a notoriously harsh prison in Karaj, a suburb of the capital Tehran, outlets reported.
Moradi had insisted that Ismaili acted in self-defense to save herself and her children when she killed her husband, Alireza Zamani, according to the UK Times.
The Islamic Republic has imposed many death sentences in recent weeks, but executing 17 people together is extreme, even by Iranian rules, the British newspaper notes.
Ismaili is one of three women killed last week, and had 114 women executed under Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, which began in 2013, according to the MRI.