‘Girls Waiting for Capital Punishment’ Tells the Story of Iran’s Imprisoned Girls

For his series Waiting Girls, or Girls Waiting for Capital Punishment, Iranian photographer Sadegh Souri tells the story of his nation’s young imprisoned women, many of whom will die before their lives ever begin. While boys must be fifteen in order to be sentenced to death, girls aged nine to seventeen are sometimes ordered to be killed for crimes like murder, robbery, and drug trafficking.