Power Punishment & Execution in Iran
Mar 4th, 2014Hamid Yazdanpanah, March 4 2014
The regime needs the public execution as a ritual of state power and control against an increasingly discontented populace. The public execution is not meant to restore the balance of justice, but to display the “dissymmetry between the subject who has dared to violate the law and the all-powerful” regime.