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Photos: Two hanged in Iran capital for killing senior judge

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 03 – Iranian authorities hanged two men in public in Tehran on Thursday for killing a senior judge in 2005. Iran Focus

Tehran, Iran, Aug. 03 – Iranian authorities hanged two men in public in Tehran on Thursday for killing a senior judge in 2005.

The executions took place outside the judiciary headquarters in front of a large crowd as well as Iran’s chief of police Brig. Gen. Ismaeil Ahmadi-Moqqaddam and Tehran’s chief prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi.

Majid Kavousifar and Hossein Kavousifar had been convicted of killing Hassan Moqqaddas in his car in 2005.

The following are photos of the hangings:

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