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An Iranian man found guilty of using acid to blind a woman who refused to marry him now will have the same done to him as punishment � and she'll be the one who carries out the sentence, her lawyer says.

The lawyer said that at noon Saturday, Ameneh Bahrami would drop acid in both eyes of Majid Movahedi, 30, after he is rendered unconscious at a judiciary hospital in Tehran, The Guardian newspaper reported, citing Iranian media.

Bahrami was disfigured and blinded in 2004 when Movahedi threw acid in her face as she returned home from work, the Guardian reported. After Movahedi admitted to the attack, Bahrami asked a court to order an eye-for-an-eye retribution, under the Islamic law system of "qisas."

The court did so in November 2008, calling for five drops of sulfuric acid to be placed in each of his eyes.

Iranian officials have endorsed the sentence, hoping to stop an increase in acid attacks, the Guardian said.

The Washington Post reported that human rights groups and the British government had asked Bahrami to pardon Movahedi but that she had refused.

�I have been receiving numerous phone calls from Iranian human rights organizations based abroad,� Bahrami told the Post in a phone interview Friday. �They are pressuring me to pardon him. But I won�t do that.�

Iran's government helped Bahrami, who has an electronics degree and worked in a medical engineering company before the attack, moved to Spain, where she underwent a series of unsuccessful operations.

She briefly recovered half vision in her right eye in 2007 but an infection blinded her again, the Guardian said.

Bahrami, now in her 30s, wrote a book about her ordeal, �Eye for an Eye,� which was published in Germany.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43029928/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

[comm]

I think the "eye for an eye" concept of punishment makes a lot more sense than imprisonment.

Prison just creates massive costs for the state and eliminates the productivity of the convict. Then it results in more crime when they release an unemployable and likely homeless citizen out onto the streets after years or decades of imprisonment.

[jrwhite82]

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[jrwhite82]

[recessiontime]

high standards?

There is very little difference between justice and revenge. The former is simply done by a greater number of people. It's been clearly established that jailed convicts learn nothing in prison other than coming out the other side as harder criminals than before. There really is no solution other than the subjective ones we create. There is no way at the moment to reprogram the brains of offenders so we've resorted to long time outs in prisons.

[jrwhite82]

[recessiontime]

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Are you suggesting we just put a guy in jail for blinding someone and destroying their life? As harsh as it is I find that what happened to him was proportional to the damage he did.

I honestly don't find our way of retribution to make any sense. We put people in jail for stealing from a cash register but white collar criminals stealing 10's and 100's of millions get off with a fine. A person knowingly gives AIDs to several people and gets 6 months of jail time. I could go on and on. Sometimes I find our way of doing things stranger and absurd.

[jrwhite82]

I agree there is a large degree of disproportion prevalent in our justice system. And that it is failing to a large degree. But I don't think burning peoples' eyes out is the right answer. So to answer your question, yes, given the two choices, putting him in jail is a better alternative to burning his eyes out.

[caniff]

Ask the Chinese - they know how to make a yuan off their prisoners.

[Kuros]

[ontheway]

This "eye for an eye" punishment is barbaric and evil.

The fact that the US system has failed in many ways is no justification to endorse a disgusting and evil system of punishment practiced by barbarians.

[Kuros]

[Sergio Stefanuto]

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