Public Execution in Iran (14 images)

Iranians watch the public execution of the murderers of Hassan Moghaddas, a hardline deputy prosecutor and head of the "guidance" court in Tehran, in central Tehran , Iran on August 2, 2007. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah)

Hossein Kavousifar, 24, a convicted murderer of Hassan Moghaddas, a hardline deputy prosecutor and head of the "guidance" court in Tehran, is publicly hanged in front of Moghaddas' picture in central Tehran, Iran on August 2, 2007. Moghaddas was shot dead by two men as he was getting into his car in August 2005. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah)

Majid Kavousifar, 28, a convicted murderer of Hassan Moghaddas, a hardline deputy prosecutor and head of the "guidance" court in Tehran, waves before his publicly hanged in central Tehran , Iran on August 2, 2007. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah)

Majid Kavousifar, 28, a convicted murderer of Hassan Moghaddas, a hardline deputy prosecutor and head of the "guidance" court in Tehran, waves before his publicly hanged in central Tehran , Iran on August 2, 2007. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah)

Majid Kavousifar, 28, a convicted murderer of Hassan Moghaddas, a hardline deputy prosecutor and head of the "guidance" court in Tehran, waves before his publicly hanged in central Tehran , Iran on August 2, 2007. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah)

Hossein Kavousifar, 24, a convicted murderer of Hassan Moghaddas, a hardline deputy prosecutor and head of the "guidance" court in Tehran, awaits his public execution in central Tehran, Iran on August 2, 2007. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah)

Hossein Kavousifar, 24, a convicted murderer of Hassan Moghaddas, a hardline deputy prosecutor and head of the "guidance" court in Tehran, awaits his public execution in central Tehran, Iran on August 2, 2007. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah)

Hossein Kavousifar, 24, a convicted murderer of Hassan Moghaddas, a hardline deputy prosecutor and head of the "guidance" court in Tehran, awaits his public execution in central Tehran, Iran on August 2, 2007. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah)