January 18th, 2015
Headsman
Iran carried out two public hangings on this date in 2013 in the city of Pakdasht, according to the National Committee of Resistance of Iran.
On this day..
- 2016: Daniel Shaver, police impunity victim - 2020
- 1169: Shawar, Saladin forerunner - 2019
- 1884: Maggie and Michael Cuddigan lynched in Ouray - 2018
- 1573: Gilles Garnier, loup-garou - 2017
- 1678: James Mitchell, Covenanter assassin - 2016
- 2000: Spencer Corey Goodman - 2014
- 1863: Mangas Coloradas, Apache leader - 2013
- 1902: Gideon Scheepers, Boer guerrilla - 2012
- 1256: Marie of Brabant, on suspicion of infidelity - 2011
- 1676: Joshua Tefft, drawn and quartered in Rhode Island - 2010
- Themed Set: Resistance and Rebellion in the Restoration - 2010
- 1803: George Foster, and thence to the reanimator - 2009
- 1985: Mahmoud Mohamed Taha, progressive Islamic theologian - 2008
Entry Filed under: 21st Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,Hanged,Iran,Public Executions
Tags: 2010s, 2013, january 18, pakdasht, photography
March 16th, 2009
Headsman
On this date in 2005, Iran “desert vampire” was flogged to the point of collapse and hanged before a bloodthirsty throng in Pakdasht.
Mohammed Bijeh collapses during his flogging (top); then, as he is hoisted by a crane — with what one would take to be the stab wound from a victim’s brother visible on his back. More frightful photos of this execution
here.
Bijeh confessed to raping and murdering 16 boys age 8 to 15 over a yearlong spree.
His modus operandi? Lure them into the desert on the pretext of hunting animals.
Unsurprisingly a figure of intense public hatred, Bijeh stolidly endured his own death before a jeering mob.
Riot police held back the angry crowd, but at one point a brother of one of the victims managed to break through and stab Bijeh in the back.
After 100 lashes, the desert vampire was noosed to a crane arm by one of the victims’ mothers, and hoisted 10 meters into the air for public strangulation, to the cheers of onlookers who had to be restrained from savaging the body when it was finally brought down.
An accomplice, Ali Baghi, somehow avoided execution and got off with whipping and a prison term.
On this day..
Entry Filed under: 21st Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,Hanged,Infamous,Iran,Mature Content,Murder,Public Executions,Rape,Serial Killers,Sex,Torture
Tags: 2000s, 2005, march 16, mohammed bijeh, pakdasht, tehran, vampire
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