PHOTOS: Killer spared at the gallows

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Friday, April 18, 2014
This picture provided by ISNA, a semi-official news agency, taken on Tuesday, April 15, 2014 shows Iranian woman Kobra, bottom, whose son Bilal was convicted of murdering a man, waiting among people before his execution in public in the northern city of Nour, Iran. Bilal, who was convicted of killing Abdollah Hosseinzadeh, was pardoned by the victim's family moments before being executed. (AP Photo/ISNA, Arash Khamoushi)
This picture provided by ISNA, a semi-official news agency, taken on Tuesday, April 15, 2014 shows Kobra, left, whose son Bilal was convicted of murdering a man, embracing Samereh Alinejad, mother of the victim, after she pardoned the murderer before his execution in public in the northern city of Nour, Iran. Bilal who was convicted of killing Abdollah Hosseinzadeh, was pardoned by the victim's family moments before being executed. (AP Photo/ISNA, Arash Khamoushi)
This picture provided by ISNA, a semi-official news agency, taken on Tuesday, April 15, 2014 shows Iranian officials and security escorting away the blindfolded man Bilal from the scene of his execution in public in the northern city of Nour, Iran. Bilal, who was convicted of killing Abdollah Hosseinzadeh, was pardoned by the victim's family moments before being executed. (AP Photo/ISNA, Arash Khamoushi)
This picture provided by ISNA, a semi-official news agency, taken on Tuesday, April 15, 2014 shows Samereh Alinejad, right, and her husband Abdolghani, left, removing the noose from the neck of blindfolded Bilal who was convicted of murdering their son Abdollah in the northern city of Nour, Iran. Bilal who was convicted of killing Abdollah Hosseinzadeh, was pardoned by the victim's family moments before being executed. (AP Photo/ISNA, Arash Khamoushi)
This picture provided by ISNA, a semi-official news agency, taken on Tuesday, April 15, 2014 shows Samereh Alinejad, right, slapping blindfolded Bilal, who was convicted of murdering her son Abdollah prior to his execution in public in the northern city of Nour, Iran. Bilal who was convicted of killing Abdollah Hosseinzadeh, was pardoned by the victim's family moments before being executed. (AP Photo/ISNA, Arash Khamoushi)
This picture provided by ISNA, a semi-official news agency, taken on Tuesday, April 15, 2014 shows a blindfolded Iranian man Bilal being prepared to be hanged in public in the northern city of Nour, Iran. Bilal, who was convicted of killing Abdollah Hosseinzadeh, was pardoned by the victim's family moments before being executed. (AP Photo/ISNA, Arash Khamoushi)
PHOTOS: Killer spared at the gallowsThis picture provided by ISNA, a semi-official news agency, taken on Tuesday, April 15, 2014 shows Iranian woman Kobra, bottom, whose son Bilal was convicted of murdering a man, waiting among people before his execution in public in the northern city of Nour, Iran. Bilal, who was convicted of killing Abdollah Hosseinzadeh, was pardoned by the victim's family moments before being executed. (AP Photo/ISNA, Arash Khamoushi)