I married Iranian girls before their execution - Jerusalem Post

In the Islamic Republic it is illegal to execute a young woman, regardless of her crime, if she is a virgin, he explained. Therefore a "wedding" ceremony is conducted the night before the execution: The young girl is forced to have sexual intercourse with a prison guard - essentially raped by her "husband."

"I regret that, even though the marriages were legal," he said.

Why the regret, if the marriages were "legal?"

"Because," he went on, "I could tell that the girls were more afraid of their 'wedding' night than of the execution that awaited them in the morning. And they would always fight back, so we would have to put sleeping pills in their food. By morning the girls would have an empty expression; it seemed like they were ready or wanted to die.

"I remember hearing them cry and scream after [the rape] was over," he said. "I will never forget how this one girl clawed at her own face and neck with her finger nails afterwards. She had deep scratches all over her." (via I married Iranian girls before their execution | Iran news | Jerusalem Post).

The Law of the Land

The law of the land is supreme. All are equal in the eyes of the law of the land.

Whether is is the US, which is a leader in 'research' to kill in a 'humane' manner - kill people deemed to be prisoners of the State. Or in Iran where people (young girls) are raped to meet the requirements of the law of the land.

These legal systems trace their lineage to the Hammurabic Code. Draco's Laws in Greece, or the lex talionis in Rome, right upto and leading to the world's largest prison population in the US, or the Shariat in Islamic societies. Israeli propaganda apart, the real reason for this state of affairs is the legal philosophy inherited from Hammurabi.

The alternative

The other is the Indic model which traces its lineage to Lipit Ishtar, the Hitties till the advent of the Desert Bloc in India - with the brief Islamic rule from 1200-1400 (the Slave Dynasty, the Khiljis and Tuglaks) to the muddled Indo-Saracenic Moghuls to the downright asuric colonial rule. In spite of this, the Indian system has managed a low crime, low prisoner, low capital sentence, low police regime - which is unique in the world.