Balal, who killed Iranian youth Abdolah Hosseinzadeh in a street fight with a knife in 2007, is brought to the gallows during his execution ceremony in the northern city of Nowshahr on April 15, 2014. The mother of Abdolah Hosseinzadeh spared the life of the her son's convicted murderer, with an emotional slap in the face as he awaited execution prior to removing the noose around his neck. (Photo by Araash Khamooshi/AFP Photo/ISNA)

Palestinian female Hamas security officers demonstrate their skills during a graduation ceremony in the northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, April 2, 2014. 1200 officers graduated from advanced training courses that lasted one year in Gaza police academy of Hamas. (Photo by Adel Hana/AP Photo)

A boy holds a toy rifle as Hamas militants parade at a rally just over a week after a cease-fire was reached in an 11-day war between Hamas and Israel, Sunday, May 30, 2021, in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip. (Photo by Felipe Dana/AP Photo)

A Palestinian rides with the body of an Israeli killed by Hamas militants in a kibbutz near the Gaza Strip fence in Gaza City, Saturday, October 7, 2023. (Photo by Abed Abu Reash/AP Photo)

Internally displaced Syrian children play inside a refugee camp in the Hama countryside, Syria January 1, 2016. (Photo by Ammar Abdullah/Reuters)

Ali al-Naami, convicted of murdering his three daughters, is placed on a carpet to be executed at a public square in Sana'a, Yemen, 16 June 2021. Defendant Ali al-Naami, 40, convicted of killing his daughters Rahaf, 7, Raghad, 12, and Malak, 14, in June 2019, was executed by an executioner in front of hundreds of spectators in a public square in Sana'a. He had admitted to strangling them and drowning them in a water tank after the mother left the house due to domestic disputes with him. (Photo by Yahya Arhab/EPA/EFE)

The body of one of several U.S. soldiers who were executed after being captured by North Korean troops just south of Seoul in early July 1950. (Photo by AP Photo)

Mary Pickford takes a picture of husband Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., who is executing a handstand on the roof of a building on December 19, 1920. (Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)