City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran

by Ramita Navai,
The Minneapolis Star Tribume, September 7, 2014

“We believed what we were doing was the right thing,” Ghassem Namazi, the judge who sentenced a young man’s parents to death in 1988, tells the man, Amir, in 2013. “I lost my way because I was lying to myself, lying to the world, and above all I was lying to God. … I want to make this right, and I need your forgiveness”