A year ago this date, three young men identified as Abolfazl Faraei, Reza Roshanfekr and Seyed Rokneddin Karimi were executed by hanging from cranes in Shiraz, Iran, on charges of kidnapping, armed robbery, and murder.
Disturbing images of the public hangings follow; click on any save the last to zoom to a larger disturbing.
Update: Shiraz marked the anniversary date by hanging eight more the day this post was published, April 16, 2012.
Another man was reported hanged the same date for murder in nearby Takhteh Kenar.
On this day..
- 1966: Lau Pui
- 1947: Rudolf Höss, Auschwitz commandant
- 1868: Gujarat's "Tribal Martyrs"
- 1986: Alec Collett, Lebanon hostage
- 1841: Peter Robinson, Tell-Tale Heart inspiration?
- 1355: Filippo Calendario and Bertuccio Isarello, Doge stooges
- 1897: Lovett Brookins, thanks to bad women
- 1942: Vasily Klubkov, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya's betrayer
- 1783: Philip, a negro slave of Henry Garrett
- 1525: Count Ludwig von Helfenstein
- 1178 B.C.E.: Penelope's suitors, by Odysseus
- 2004: Jerry McWee, a former policeman
Turning a living, breathing human being into a corpse: how can people do this? State-sanctioned or no? Everything about the death penalty is just so WRONG!
The third photo, with the sunlight shining through the noose, is almost artful.