Mehdi Farahj was hanged in Qazvin on this date in 2011 for a rape-murder spree that claimed five women’s lives.
Iranian photographer Ebrahim Noroozi shot scenes of this hanging as part of a stunning black-and-white series on public executions in Iran.
Noroozi gave an interview explaining his motivation and process — and allowing that the executions he attends “disgust me.”
Part of the Themed Set: The 2010s.
On this day..
- 1831: Ciro Menotti, hero to Garibaldi - 2020
- 2009: The brother of an Iraqi rape victim - 2019
- 1584: Samuel Zborowski, dangerous precedent - 2018
- 1755: Louis Mandrin - 2017
- Themed Set: The 2010s - 2016
- 1868: Michael Barrett, the last public hanging in England - 2015
- Themed Set: Terrorism - 2015
- 1651: Jeane Gardiner, Bermuda witch - 2014
- 1991: Li Xinming, fecund - 2013
- 1884: Mary Lefley, exonerated by a deathbed confession - 2012
- 1647: Alse Young, the first witchcraft execution in New England - 2011
- 1871: Hostages of the Paris Commune - 2010
- 1831: Mariana de Pineda Muñoz, Spanish liberal - 2009
- 1923: Albert Leo Schlageter, Nazi martyr - 2008
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