Iran Executes Two Rapists in Public; Children Present
On February 13, 2014, Iranian authorities sponsored a public execution in Kozehgari Square of Shiraz. The prisoners, Rahim Esfandiari Bay, 36, and Mohammad Darvish, 37, were convicted of some of the most severe crimes: murder and rape. Their sentences of execution were carried out via hanging in the public square. According to Fars, the Iranian