Sadegh Khalkhali ()( July 27, 1926 – November 26, 2003 ) was a hardline Shia cleric of the Islamic Republic of Iran who is said to have " brought to his job as Chief Justice of the revolutionary courts a relish for summary execution " that earned him a reputation as Iran's " hanging judge ".

A farmer's son born in Givi ( Ardabil Province, Iran ) in appearance Khalkhali was " a small, rotund man with a pointed beard, kindly smile, and a high-pitched giggle.

Khalkhali is known to have been one of Khomeini's circle of disciples as far back as 1955 and is reported to have reconstructed the former secret society of Islamic assassins known as the Fadayan-e Islam after its suppression, but was not a well-known figure to the public prior to the Islamic Revolution.

On February 24, 1979, however, Khalkhali was chosen by Ayatollah Khomeini to be the Sharia ruler ( حاکم شرع in Persian ) or head the newly established Revolutionary Courts, and to make Islamic rulings.

pleas for clemency poured in from all over the world and it was said that Khalkhali was told by telephone to stay the execution.

Khalkhali replied that he would go and see what was happening.

Khalkhali was known for his antipathy towards pre-Islamic Iran.

" According an interview by Elaine Sciolino of Shiraz-based Ayatollah Majdeddin Mahallati, Khalkhali came to Persepolis with " a band of thugs " and gave an angry speech demanding that " the faithful torch the silk-lined tent city and the grandstand that the Shah had built ," but was driven off by stone-throwing local residents.

Following the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Reza Shah's mausoleum was destroyed under the direction of Hujjat al-Islam Sadeq Khalkhali, which was sanctioned by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

Shortly after the overthrow of the monarchy, Revolutionary Tribunals were set up in the major towns, with two courts in the capital of Tehran-one each in the prison of Qasr and Evin, and one traveling tribunal for Hojjat al-Islam Sadegh Khalkhali, who was known for his stiff sentences ( often execution ).

Armed revolutionary committees loyal to Khomeini ( which came to be known as the Pasdaran ) arrested many thousands of youth and activists from both nationalist and leftist groups, many of whom were later tried by Ayatollah Sadegh Khalkhali, who was known as the Hanging Judge, and executed.

Brief trials lacking defense attorneys, juries, transparency or opportunity for the accused to defend themselves, were held by revolutionary judges such as Sadegh Khalkhali, the Sharia judge.

Khalkhali is famous for ordering the executions of Amir Abbas Hoveida, the Shah's longtime prime minister, and Nematollah Nassiri, a former head of SAVAK.

By trying Hoveida, Khalkhali effectively undermined the position of the provisional prime minister of the Islamic Revolution, the moderate Mehdi Bazargan, who disapproved of the Islamic Revolutionary Court and sought to establish the Revolution's reputation for justice and moderation.

Khalkhali later investigated and ordered the execution of many activists for federalism in Kurdistan and Turkmen Sahra, At the height of its activity Khalkhali's revolutionary court sentenced to death " up to 60 Kurds a day.

Sadeq Khalkhali, who would come to be known as the ' Hanging Judge ' for his whimsical approach to revolutionary justice, would head the tribunal that had assembled to try the former Prime Minister.

In an interview, Khalkhali personally confirmed ordering more than 100 executions, although many sources believe that by the time of his death he had sent 8, 000 men and women to their deaths.

Another version of the story has Khalkhali saying that while presiding over Hoveida's execution he made sure communication links between Qasr Prison and the outside world were severed, " to prevent any last-minute intercession on his behalf by Mehdi Bazargan, the provisional prime minister.

At the height of the Iran hostage crisis in 1980 following the failure of the American rescue mission Operation Eagle Claw and crash of U. S. helicopters killing their crews, Khalkhali appeared on television

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