TIME’s Best Portraits of 2012

Ebrahim Noroozi’s Photographs of Hangings in Iran

Mr. Noroozi had long wanted to document executions in Iran, because for him they illustrate what he calls “the inflation of human life.” When restrictions on documenting executions were lifted by Iranian authorities last year, the photographer set out to cover several hangings in different cities in the Islamic Republic, which after China passes the most death sentences in the world

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http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/documenting-death-sentences-in-iran/?pagewanted=all