NCRI – Two prisoners were hanged in public by the mullahs' judiciary in Chamrun Square in the southern city of Jahrom, reported the official daily Kayhan on Tuesday.
The men were identified as Mojtaba R. and M.H.A.
On January 31, 2008, the mullahs' judiciary chief, Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, ordered death penalty should be carried out behind close doors.
"We have repeatedly seen that people expressed sympathy with the person who was going to be hanged in public. People even expressed their abhorrence at the execution of the sentence," said the assistant prosecutor for sentences in Tehran's criminal prosecution office, the state-run daily Javan reported on January 31, 2008.
"With far less expenditure, executions could be carried out in prison," he added.
The state-run websites also admitted to the adverse effects of public hangings and noted that the victims' gestures before being hanged deeply affected the young people and left heroes image in their minds. These websites regretted that in addition to generating hatred among people, public hangings have also damaged the status of the regime in the world.
