Iranian Man Spared Execution at Last Second By Victim's Mother

[The Straight Story]

A man’s life was spared at the last second in Iran after the mother of a man he murdered halted his public execution.

Balal, with a noose tight around his neck, was awaiting death by hanging for the 2007 murder of 18-year-old Abdollah Hosseinzadeh when the victim’s mother had a change of heart, according to The Guardian.

The woman reportedly slapped the blind-folded Balal in the face before her husband helped her remove the noose, in front of a shocked crowd in Nowshahr, Iran on Tuesday.

"I am a believer,” said the victim’s mother, Samereh Alinejad, according to Agence France-Presse. “I had a dream in which my son told me that he was at peace and in a good place … After that, all my relatives, even my mother, put pressure on me to pardon the killer."


http://abcnews.go.com/International/iranian-man-spared-execution-victims-mother/story?id=23363985

[arely staircase]

1. hell that muslim woman did something Christ-like

Easter forgiveness shoutout.

[Warpy]

2. Or with Buddha nature. Christians don't own forgiveness.

It's amazing that she was still willing to see him hang until she got to deliver a meaty slap. She said that slap occurred during the second between vengeance and forgiveness, a beautiful way of putting it.

[arely staircase]

4. not only do we not own it

We mostly suck at it as do most people. I try to be better at it. Sometimes I succeed. Often I don't. But as for this Christian, I will always remember this muslim woman and what I can take from her example and try to be more like her.

[Warpy]

7. I was somewhere in the middle, but I was only 16 at the time.

I didn't want the murderer to be killed in my name, it would have made the whole miserable thing worse. I just wanted him locked up so he could never do it again. I got my wish. He eventually died in prison.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

3. If only more Christians were Christ like,

we would be able to abolish the DP.

[arely staircase]

5. +1 nt

[sabrina 1]

6. Beautiful act of forgiveness.

[ucrdem]

8. Worthy of Gabriel García Márquez

That's quite a story!