2007: Majid and Hossein Kavousifar
August 2nd, 2011 Headsman
On this date in 2007, cousins Majid and Hossein Kavousifar (or Kavoosifar, or Kavoosi-far) were publicly hanged in Tehran for murdering a judge.
The judge in question had been noted for clapping some democracy activists in jail, but the authorities insisted that the case wasn’t political — that Majid admitted targeting Hassan Moghaddas (whose outsized portrait grotesquely decorated the scene) in a personal vendetta, as well as killing a couple of other people in a string of robberies.
The first public executions in the capital in five years, these hangings attracted an ample crowd, amply armed with the ubiquitous digital media equipment that characterizes our age.
Age-appropriate entertainment? A spectator at the hanging.
And while the 24-year-old Hossein died in fright, 28-year-old Majid played to those onlookers in the most insouciant execution pictures you’ll ever want to see.
Warning: Graphic images (and video) follow. (Many more can be searched up around the web.)
… and the inevitable video.
On this day..
- 1838: Remexido, Liberal Wars holdout - 2020
- 1941: Louis Berrier, messenger pigeoner - 2019
- 1872: Charles Marlow, brewer - 2018
- 1952: Johann Burianek, East German saboteur - 2017
- 1415: Thomas Grey, Southampton Plotter - 2016
- 1834: Eliza Joyce, confessed poisoner - 2015
- 2005: Steven Vincent, Iraq War journalist - 2014
- 1996: Sergey Golovkin, the last executed in Russia - 2013
- 1994: Not Arthur Judah Angel, death row artist - 2012
- Themed Set: Scary Escapes - 2012
- 1608: Jean Duval, for plotting against Champlain - 2010
- 1904: Heinrich, a Herero - 2009
- 1343: Olivier III de Clisson, husband of the Lioness of Brittany - 2008
Entry Filed under: 21st Century,Assassins,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,Hanged,History,Iran,Mature Content,Murder,Public Executions,Ripped from the Headlines
Tags: 2000s, 2007, august 2, hossein kavoosi-far, hossein kavousifar, majid kavoosi-far, majid kavousifar, tehran
little spectator was his little girl !
Agree with Bjarne Kim – capital punishment should be abolished, but so should a lot of things, like allowing anyone to have more than 2 kids. We’re breeding the planet to death from overpopulation. Some of us need to die, so the rest can live. Who wants to go first?
how about you? practice what you preach
Esto es lo peor matar por una religion tu eres libre de creer en el Dios que ati ta paresca o simplemente no creer, nacemos libres y libres debemos morir, para esas personas fanaticas por que no son mas que otra cosa, su verdadero dios es el egoismo, promulgan una religion falsa por que no creo que un Dios pida que mates a otro ser solo por que no cree en el. Hipocritas creeyentes de su propio fanatismo
Cut the rope I
cut the rope from
the neck of the convicted
and bind the judge
Cut the rope II
put the judges to court
and give them a fair trial
for their death sentences
Cut the rope III
life is sacred
no one may steal the right
to breathe freely
Schoften.