Child Execution in Iran: Furthering Our Understanding of Child Execution as a Form of Structural Violence

Abstract This article explores how the concepts of strucutral violence and cultural can explain institutionalization normalization in children’s lives Iran, including use death penalty, thereby providing a mechanism through which such be challenged. The paper reflects on an alternative to execution, payment blood money, diyah , mitigates but does not eradicate harms caused child offenders convicted Qesas offenses is used by Iranian authorities avoid fulfilling their legal obligations children who offend. argues that eradicating execution money dependent challenging structural embedded within Iran’s structures it recent improvements system.