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Hanging is the only common method of execution in 21st-century Iran, usually carried out in prison. Compared to other countries that use hanging (such as Japan or Malaysia) with a complex gallows designed to drop the condemned and break the neck, Iran's gallows are very simple and inexpensive. They consist only of a frame and a stool, with some ...
In Iran, public executions occurred regularly during the Qajar dynasty but declined with the Persian Constitutional Revolution and became a rare occurrence under the Pahlavi dynasty. With the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979, capital punishment and public executions returned on an unprecedented scale.
The legal methods of execution are hanging, firing squad, stoning, beheading, and throwing from a height. However, in practice only hanging is approved by the authorities (firing squads were used for many military/political crimes up to the 1990s). There are few records of beheading or throwing executions.
Hanging, and state also has power to determine method of execution by offense committed. Death penalty for murder; espionage; treason; attempt on the life of the head of state; mutiny; desertion in the face of the enemy, aggravated piracy and terrorism. Persons excused from capital punishment are pregnant women, teenagers who were younger than ...
Mohsen Chavoshi, one of Iran's most famous singers, has helped rescue more than 50 people from the gallows in a country where justice can be harsh. He had two days to live before his execution in ...
The grave of Mohsen Shekhari. On 25 September 2022, Shekari attended a protest against the death of Mahsa Amini in Tehran, Iran's capital city.During the protest, Iranian authorities asserted that he blocked or closed off a main road in Tehran, Sattar Khan Street, [3] and used a machete to non-fatally wound a member of the Basij militia, which was sent in to quell the protests.
Iran’s judiciary has said Iranian-German dissident Jamshid Sharmahd died before his execution was reported by state media late last month. The judiciary’s news agency said on 28 October that ...
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