Woman hanged for killing her rapist leaves heartbreaking final note: ‘I wish I could have hugged you until I died’

A woman who was put to death for killing a man who tried to rape her left a heartbreaking message to her mother.

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by Ellie Hooper |
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Reyhaneh Jabbari, 27, was hanged on Saturday despite an international outcry for her release.

The woman wrote to her mother that she did not want to be buried in a grave where her family would go to cry and mourn, and she also did not want them to wear black for her.

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Reyhaneh pictured after her arrest
Reyhaneh pictured after her arrest

‘I don’t want to rot in the soil. Please don’t cry. I love you. I wish I could have hugged you until I died.’

Jabbari asked that her organs be donated after her death.

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Her mother, Mrs Pakravan, wrote of her torment on Facebook earlier in the week.

‘After seven and a half years of pain and suffering, is this how my dear child comes to her end?’

‘I don’t want to rot in the soil. Please don’t cry. I love you. I wish I could have hugged you until I died.’

Jabbari was just 19 when she killed Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi. According to her evidence, the man had attempted to rape her, so she grabbed a pocket knife and stabbed him.

She was sentenced to death for her crime, despite maintaining for eight years that another man in the room with her actually killed Sarbandi.

Amnesty International described the investigation and trial as ‘deeply flawed’ and revealed that Jabbari was tortured while in custody, kept in solitary confinement, and had her execution date frequently moved.

‘The only thing I want…from God, from people around the world…in any way, in any form, is I just want to bring Rayaneh back home.’

Earlier this month, Mrs Pakravan told Fox News that she wished they would hang her instead of her young daughter.

‘The only thing I want…from God, from people around the world…in any way, in any form, is I just want to bring Rayaneh back home.’

‘I am a mother. No mother can accept the death of her child.’

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