You're just as dead either way

A while back, I reported on a thirteen year old girl stoned to death in Iran for "adultery," and a sixteen year rape victim hanged there (though not for being raped per se, it turns out; rather, for her "sharp tongue" in defending herself in court while on trial for her life for having been raped. Glad we cleared that up!).

The hanged girl is thought to have been mentally retarded.

It turns out that the "crime" of the thirteen year old was that she was a victim of incest, impregnated by her older brother.

And another Iranian girl fought back, and successfully defended herself and her young niece from rapists. But they decided to hang her, too.

It seems that in defending herself, she accidentally killed one of her would-be rapists.

Resist either the sexual assault or the legal one by the kangaroo court, and they hang you. Don't resist, and they stone you.

Rapists are the lowest form of life on Earth. Iranian judges aren't much higher, in my book.