Iran's "Old Ygor" Survives Hanging

Above, a publicity still of Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff from "Son of Frankenstein."

Sometimes life imitates art.

The Washington Times reported:

A death row prisoner in Iran is to be hanged for a second time once he regains strength after he survived an earlier attempt. 

Alireza M, 37, was “put to death” at Bojnourd prison last Wednesday for drugs, but when his family went to collect his body at the morgue the next day, they noticed he was still breathing, the Daily Mail reported.

This reminds me of the Ygor character played by Bela Lugosi in Son of Frankenstein (1939) and reprised in Ghost of Frankenstein (1942). Ygor was a blacksmith in the village of Frankenstein who was hanged for grave-robbing ("Because I stole bodies, dey said," said Ygor in Son of Frankenstein). Ygor survived the hanging, but with a broken and deformed neck and was refused a burial. His "lifeless" body was thrown into the ruins of Henry Frankenstein's laboratory instead.

The Iranian in question may not be so lucky.

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/16/iranian-prisoner-will-be-hanged-again-after-he-sur/#ixzz2hupgTuTH
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