Two Iranian men convicted of kidnapping and murdering...

Two Iranian men convicted of kidnapping and murdering about 20 children in the desert south of Tehran were sentenced to be hanged in public at the scene of their crimes.
In October a Tehran court sentenced Mohammad Bijeh, the alleged mastermind of the crimes, to be lashed and hanged, while his accomplice Ali Baghi was ordered to be lashed and spend 15 years behind bars.
But after the two-day trial, which was interrupted by furious relatives of the victims, the head of the judiciary Ayatollah Hashemi Shahroudi ordered a re-trial of the pair given that one of them escaped death.
The head of the judiciary in Tehran, Abbas Ali Alizadeh, said the two had been found "corrupt on earth" and would now both die for the crimes.
"They will be publicly executed at the very crime scene," he was quoted as saying, but added the men could appeal within 20 days and the death penalties were subject to supreme court approval.
The pair were reported to have been convicted of killing between 19 and 22 people, most of them young children, around the impoverished town of Pakdasht just south of Tehran.
The prosecution and families of the victims had demanded that both men, dubbed "hyenas" or "vampires of the Tehran desert" in the press, be executed.