Four Corners

Season 46, Episode 26

Episode Title: Execution of a Teenage Girl

Air Date: 2006-08-07

Overview:

Not long after dawn on August 15, 2004 a teenage girl was dragged through a town square in the Iranian provincial city of Neka, past a crowd of people to the spot where a mobile crane had been converted into a makeshift gallows. Atefah Sahaaleh was 16 years old. She was hanged that morning for crimes against chastity.