A man was hanged in front of cheering crowds in Iran on Wednesday after he was convicted of the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl which had outraged the nation.
The execution of 42-year-old Esmail Jafarzadeh was shown in an amateur video shared on the state broadcaster’s website.
He was hanged at dawn in the square of the small northwestern town of Parsabad, in Ardebil province.
The execution was held in public “to restore citizens’ sense of security and relieve their troubled minds,” Ardebil’s prosecutor Naser Atabati told reporters.
AFP
