Iran hangs the body of a woman to satisfy her mother-in-law

An Iranian woman died of a heart attack, before the execution of her death sentence, after she was convicted of killing her husband, but the authorities hanged her body.

Zahra Ismaili was waiting for her turn in the gallows last Wednesday to be convicted of killing her husband, but she fell dead after a heart attack after being forced to watch 16 men hanging in front of her, according to a letter from her lawyer, Omid Moradi, published by the British newspaper "The Times"

Moradi said: "They hanged her dead body, and the victim's mother, Fatima Assal Mahey, kicked the seat from under her feet so that she could see the body of her son’s wife on the noose for a few seconds."

Zahra, the mother of two children, was convicted of killing her husband, Ali Reza Zamani, an official in the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence, but her lawyer said that she had killed him in defense of herself and her children and that he was treating them violently.