Incredible photo showing Iranian prisoner grinning moments before he was executed resurfaces after two judges shot dead
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A PHOTO showing the incredible final moments of a man's life has resurfaced - as he grins just moments before he is executed. The photograph of Iranian Majid Kavousifar, 28, captures the remarkable smile he gave with a noose around his neck, seconds before his hanging in August 2007.
![[Photograph of Majid Kavousifar moments before his execution.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/photograph-smiling-majid-kavousifar-28-964992034.jpg?strip=all&w=598)
Along with his nephew Hossein, he was convicted of the murder of Judge Masoud Ahmadi Moghaddasi in August 2005. The photos shows Majid smiling and waving his hand at someone, who reports suggest is his nephew. He continues to hold up his hand in that position even as he is slowly raised in the air to be suffocated to death in central Tehran.
![[Man about to be hanged.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2007-iran-hanged-majid-hossein-964989259.jpg?strip=all&w=584)
His reported last words to police officers were: "I reached the point at which I decided to eradicate any injustice.". One photo of the chilling event does show Majid with a more stoic look, as his executioners tighten the rope around his neck. The resurfaced moments are also captured alongside a young girl in a pink tracksuit, watching on without expression as Majid is killed in front of her eyes.
![[A man being prepared for hanging.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2007-iran-hanged-majid-hossein-964991830.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
In August 2005, Majid rode on a motorcycle whilst shooting and killing Judge Masoud Ahmadi Moghaddasi. After the murder, Majid escaped from Iran to the UAE where he pleaded the US embassy for refugee status. The embassy surrendered him to police and he was extradited back to Iran.
![[A young girl stands between two uniformed officers at a public execution in Iran.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2007-iran-hanged-majid-hossein-964989261.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
At the time, the execution of Majid and Hossein were the first public executions carried out in Tehran in five years. Judge Masoud was one of several judges of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Court allegedly responsible for the mass execution of political dissidents in 1988.
![[Map showing the location in Tehran, Iran where two judges were assassinated outside the Supreme Court.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ac-18_01-tehran-shooting-map.jpg?strip=all&w=768)
