Thanks for posting the pics, Ropetrick. Good looking guys, who seem to have died well.
They were hanged as rapists. Does that make them bad guys, or did they have to confess to rape after being caught having sex to prevent their girlfriends being stoned to death as well, which would make them good guys? They lived in such a bizarrely intolerant society.
Perhaps the Iranian authorities could be persuaded to accept an arrangement where such condemned men could look online for volunteers to take their place. If successful, the Iranian guy starts a new life in the West, while his stand-in takes the public hanging. Seems like winners all round: a guy with everything to live for gets to live a full life with far wider freedoms and options than he could have dreamed of, the mad mullahs and evil state authorities sate their blood lust and get to stage their public show to cow the public, and the tight grip of the noose is round the neck of a man who appreciates its dark pleasures, and who, like Hangedguy, “would love knowing that people all over the world would be masturbating to the pics or video”.
Would there be volunteers? CDG would perhaps be a good site for condemned men to start looking. I know there would be at least one, but the executioners would have to agree to ditch the blindfold – I want to see the crowd spinning around me as I swing.