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2013: Vahid Zare pardoned while hanging

4 comments May 8th, 2014 Headsman

Last year on this date, an astonishing scene unfolded at a public hanging in Mashhad, near the Iran-Afghanistan border.

Vahid Zare, a robber who murdered a young military conscript pursuing him, was the man due for execution.

Moments after he was dropped and began strangling, the family of his victim pardoned him — their right under Iranian law. Zare was immediately rescued mid-hanging, and his executioner helped him off the gallows for transportation to a local hospital.

The graphic pictures that follow tell an astonishing story.

On this day..

• 1811: Arthur William Hodge, brutal slaveowner - 2020
• 1643: Philippe Giroux, former president of the Dijon Parlement - 2019
• 1916: Eamonn Ceannt, Michael Mallin, Con Colbert, and Sean Heuston - 2018
• 1679: La Bosse, Poison Affair culprit - 2017
• 1805: Not Bartlett Ambler, possible buggerer - 2017
• 1945: Pvt. George Edward Smith, on VE Day - 2016
• 1885: Mose Caton, beastly husband - 2015
• 1979: Twenty-one by revolutionary courts of the Iranian Revolution - 2013
• Daily Double: The Iranian Revolution - 2013
• 1788: Archibald Taylor, but not Joseph Taylor - 2012
• 1951: Willie McGee - 2011
• 1794: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, father of modern chemistry - 2010
• Daily Double: Revolutionary Justice - 2010
• 1948: U Saw and the assassins of Aung San - 2009
• 1887: Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov, Lenin's brother - 2008

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Tags: 2010s, 2013, mashhad, may 8, photography, vahid zare