I also like to see a copy of a public flogging and hanging with crane 30 years before in Iran.

I think even Mr. Nabavi will agree that until this regime is on power and we don't have a secular government, we can't expect the 'cultural revolution' you mentioned.

I like to reserve my right to inform the world this is not what ideal Iranian culture is and Iranian people also deserve a fair and equal life, as other nations.

Yes, we had the same things 30 years ago and I can provide you newspapers and magazines of those times!

BTW, I'm not going to discuss my own idea here, but I believe these punishments are the idea of majority of people in Iran. Retribution is something in our culture, and most of us have grown up with. Iran needs a cultural revolution not a political one! Please have a look at this http://news.gooya.com/nabavi/archives/024259.php which I reckon clarifies the current situation of Iran. Islamic regime is just ONE of many reasons of the fall of Persian heritage!

And 30 years before we didn't have such a barbaric act on the streets so no my friend, I don't have radical views, face the facts: this is wrong and there is no sympathy for it.

I am not muslim, nor deffender of the current regime in Iran, but I think you might not be familiar with the situations in Iran. These kinds of punishments, again, good or bad, are something which people in Iran prefer themselves, regardless of this regime or any other regime! That's coming from Iranian culture (as I mentioned in my previous post) not Iranian government or such a thing.

Please do not mix up everything, or you are going the same wrong way as current Iranian rulers (as they know the US the root of every problem in Iran!!)

At the end, I don't think even one of our foreign friends had such a radical view as you've got - In Persian we say: Kase daghtar az ash ;)

Firstly, there are different punishments in every society for different crimes. Murdering is ended up to death in the Iranian law. Sexual abuse ends up to flogs, On the other hand. So if someone rapes several people and kills them, he would be punished by flogs and also death. The sentence would be such a thing: 100 flogs for sexually abusing xx persons, and xx times death for murdering xx persons. Obviously that doesn't mean they will hang him xx times! But flog is executed before they hang him up.

Secondly, in Iranian community (good or bad - and also I think for many other societies) flogging or any other means of persecuting the killer is something which would at least calm down the murdered families. Don't forget they've lost their child in an awesome way, and watching the killer persecution would heal their thoughts of passions of their little child in his very last minutes of life!

This person was a victim of a ruthless regime who took every civil right he could have from the begining of his life, then when this guy started to kill children the police just closed their eyes, despite many warnings by locals and even suspecting the exact guy after 2nd murder, police didn't listen. After it escelated to 20 murders (although families say this guy killed 36 and the regime is covering it up for less embarrassing), police acted. So they arrested the same guy that they could arrest after the 2nd murder.

That said, I am in no way finding excuses for his terrible crimes but he is just a part of the big picture in a society where millions and millions of people are victims of daily social,political and religious repressions by a group of religious maffia that have the power and money and are begining to threat the whole world with nuclear bomb.

The families of the victims are angry of the regime and the police for why they didn't act earlier and faster against this serial killer and regime blames it on this guy and hangs him and nothing will change and society stays the same.

The regime is creating this monsters and until this regime is on power, we continue seeing this barbaric scenes and hanging people has no effect on people's desire for ending the tyranny and having a free and democratic country. People have rights to civil liberties and government is a responsible body. Only then we can invest on education and medical care and fight these horrible cases from their roots.

I think we made a big mistake ruling that hanging is "cruel and unusual punishment". I think a couple of public hangings would have a significant deterrent effect in this nation, especially if those hung were "activist" judges like that dork in San Francisco, or Judge Kennedy after his "living Constitution" decision about the death penalty for 18-year-olds.

That said, I would like to see the family members of victims have the option to carry out the official sentence. If a state used a firing squad for captial punishment, reserve the right for the family to pull the trigger. If the state uses gas, let a family member push the button.

It could help with closure for some, and is justice to others without needing constitutional laws amended.

Hear, hear.