Condemned Man Pardoned By Victim's Mother.

The convicted murderer, known as Balal, was sentenced to death for stabbing 18-year-old Abdollah Hosseinzadeh in a street fight in the Iranian town of Royan. Blindfolded and with the noose tight around his neck, the killer was due to have the scaffold chair kicked away from under him by the dead man's parents. But in an extraordinary act of clemency, the mother instead walks up to him, slaps him around the face (left) and chooses to forgive him. The parents then remove the noose (right) to the joy of the convict's mother who runs over and embraces the grieving woman who let her son walk free.

Daily Mail