Hossein Kavousifar Smiling Before His Execution

 Just before his execution, by public hanging. He later became a symbol of the fight against tyranny in Iran.

Hossein Kavousifar Smiling Before His Execution.Just before his execution, by public hanging. He later became a symbol of the fight against tyranny in Iran

Majid Kavousifar was an Iranian who, with his nephew Hossein Kavousifar, was convicted of the murder of Judge Masoud Ahmadi Moghaddasi. Majid and Hossein Kavousifar were both publicly executed by hanging in Tehran in August 2007. 

Kavousifar and family member Hossein Kavousifar were hanged for killing Hassan Moghaddas, a top Iranian judge, in 2005

He was an Iranian civilian who, with his nephew Hossein Kavousifar, killed judge Masoud Ahmadi Moghaddasi in August 2005. Masoud Ahmadi Moghaddasi was one of judges of revolutionary court, that sentenced between 2800 to 3800 political prisoners to execution in 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners.

The executions vary from being dropped while wearing the noose in the traditional manner:(Less common) They use cranes to which they attach the noose rope instead of building permanent gallows. The people climb onto a stool about as tall as a bar stool, and the noose rope is made tight about their neck and height adjusted by the crane. On command, the executioners kick the stools out from under the condemned.

To a more unpleasant form where they use the crane to pull them up causing strangulation and greater suffering. They also execute through stoning, tossing you off cliffs, and by firing squad.

If you are hanged or shot, usually, your families may not collect the body until you've paid for the rope or bullets used.