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
• 2009: The brother of an Iraqi rape victim
• 1584: Samuel Zborowski, dangerous precedent
• 1755: Louis Mandrin
• Themed Set: The 2010s
• 1868: Michael Barrett, the last public hanging in England
• Themed Set: Terrorism
• 1651: Jeane Gardiner, Bermuda witch
• 1991: Li Xinming, fecund
• 1884: Mary Lefley, exonerated by a deathbed confession
• 1647: Alse Young, the first witchcraft execution in New England
• 1871: Hostages of the Paris Commune
• 1831: Mariana de Pineda Muñoz, Spanish liberal
• 1923: Albert Leo Schlageter, Nazi martyr