Hanging no deterrent for LAT reporter in Iran

At the end of the Los Angeles Times story about two young street muggers being hanged in public in Tehran on Sunday, there's a surprise. The men, whose robbery was widely circulated on YouTube, were hanged from cranes in a residential neighborhood. The gruesome spectacle was staged apparently to deter street crime. But the Times reporter, special correspondent Ramin Mostaghim, found the strategy is not necessarily working.

A Los Angeles Times correspondent covering the event had his iPad, a $1,000 item here, stolen from his shoulder bag while speaking with distraught relatives of the condemned.

Crowd scene at executions: Ebrahim Noroozi/Fars