{"id":4842348,"date":"2009-04-22T06:50:41","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T20:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/?p=4842348"},"modified":"2023-04-13T04:59:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T04:59:56","slug":"we-are-ready-to-give-our-forgiveness-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/2009\/04\/22\/we-are-ready-to-give-our-forgiveness-if\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We are ready to give our forgiveness, if&#8230;.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Source: Sarmayeh Newspaper<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"WIDTH: 231px; HEIGHT: 153px\" height=\"831\" src=\"http:\/\/wendyusuallywanders.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/forgiveness.jpg\" width=\"1349\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"COLOR: black\"><font face=\"Calibri\">In an interview with Sarmayeh newspaper, the family of the victim said \u201cwe are ready to give our forgiveness if Delara is convicted for 20 years or a life sentence\u201d. The family said they believe a person who has been convicted of a proven crime, the act of killing someone should not be set free just because of their forgiveness. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/?><br \/>\n<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"COLOR: black\"><font face=\"Calibri\">The family had mentioned earlier in a letter that they believe in forgiveness and could not be witnesses of an execution \u2013 a death of another- and are ready to change the punishment of Ghesas (retribution) to a prison term.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"COLOR: black\"><font face=\"Calibri\">Throughout Delara\u2019s imprisonment many people, including artists, tried to help mediate between the two families and were pushing to obtain pardon from the deceased family. The family of the victim agreed to do so if Delara and her family show remorse for the death of their relative and in the condition that they dismiss their current attorney from handling their file. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&#160;<\/span>They had mentioned in a prior interview that they did not like attorney Khoramshahi\u2019s attitude towards them.<br \/><\/font><\/span><span style=\"COLOR: black\"><br \/>\n<font face=\"Calibri\">Abass Momenzadeh, a high level lawyer, mentioned that lawmakers can only convict the accused for no more than 10 years once the family of the victim gives their pardon. He said the decision of imprisonment is the responsibility of the lawmaker and not of the family of the deceased.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&#160;<\/span> To ask for 20 years imprisonment is not a lawful request.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&#160;<\/span> Only the court can decide the length of imprisonment. He continued that there is however other reasonable requests that can be a substituted. For example if the request was to pay 40 million toman (approx USD $40,000), they could instead request 100 million toman (approx USD $100,000) instead.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"COLOR: black\"><font face=\"Calibri\">He continued saying that recently in another case the family of the deceased had asked for 6 kidneys to be donated to needy people instead of a dollar amount. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&#160;<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"COLOR: black\"><font face=\"Calibri\">When Mr. Momenzadeh was asked what would happen if there is no agreement, he said that the death penalty verdict must be executed.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&#160;<\/span> If the family of the victim insists on their stance, their file will go back to the execution committee\u2019s office and they will ask the family to make up their mind.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Sarmayeh Newspaper<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"WIDTH: 231px; HEIGHT: 153px\" height=\"831\" src=\"http:\/\/wendyusuallywanders.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/forgiveness.jpg\" width=\"1349\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"COLOR: black\"><font face=\"Calibri\">In an interview with Sarmayeh newspaper, the family of the victim said \u201cwe are ready to give our forgiveness if Delara is convicted for 20 years or a life sentence\u201d. The family said they believe a person who has been convicted of a proven crime, the act of killing someone should not be set free just because of their forgiveness. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/?><br \/>\n<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"COLOR: black\"><font face=\"Calibri\">The family had mentioned earlier in a letter that they believe in forgiveness and could not be witnesses of an execution \u2013 a death of another- and are ready to change the punishment of Ghesas (retribution) to a prison term.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"COLOR: black\"><font face=\"Calibri\">Throughout Delara\u2019s imprisonment many people, including artists, tried to help mediate between the two families and were pushing to obtain pardon from the deceased family. The family of the victim agreed to do so if Delara and her family show remorse for the death of their relative and in the condition that they dismiss their current attorney from handling their file. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&#160;<\/span>They had mentioned in a prior interview that they did not like attorney Khoramshahi\u2019s attitude towards them.<br \/><\/font><\/span><span style=\"COLOR: black\"><br \/>\n<font face=\"Calibri\">Abass Momenzadeh, a high level lawyer, mentioned that lawmakers can only convict the accused for no more than 10 years once the family of the victim gives their pardon. He said the decision of imprisonment is the responsibility of the lawmaker and not of the family of the deceased.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&#160;<\/span> To ask for 20 years imprisonment is not a lawful request.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&#160;<\/span> Only the court can decide the length of imprisonment. He continued that there is however other reasonable requests that can be a substituted. For example if the request was to pay 40 million toman (approx USD $40,000), they could instead request 100 million toman (approx USD $100,000) instead.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"COLOR: black\"><font face=\"Calibri\">He continued saying that recently in another case the family of the deceased had asked for 6 kidneys to be donated to needy people instead of a dollar amount. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&#160;<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"COLOR: black\"><font face=\"Calibri\">When Mr. Momenzadeh was asked what would happen if there is no agreement, he said that the death penalty verdict must be executed.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&#160;<\/span> If the family of the victim insists on their stance, their file will go back to the execution committee\u2019s office and they will ask the family to make up their mind.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4842348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5195550,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842348\/revisions\/5195550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4842348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4842348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4842348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}