Death row prisoner to be hanged for second time after surviving first attempt

A death row prisoner is to be hanged for a second time after surviving the first attempt.

Death row prisoner to be hanged for second time after surviving first attempt

A death row prisoner is to be hanged for a second time after surviving the first attempt.

Alireza M – who was convicted of drug crimes - was thought to be dead after he was hanged for 12 minutes, but he was found to still be breathing when his relatives went to get his body from the jail's morgue the next day.

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