Hiba Al Akkad (standing) embracing her famous mother.
Mahmoud Al Issawi was hanged at Wadi el-Natrun prison outside Cairo on this date in 2014.
In 2008, he stabbed to death Hiba Al Akkad, the 23-year-old daughter of Moroccan star singer Laila Ghofran, along with Heba’s friend Nadine Gamal, in the course of a botched burglary in Cairo’s affluent Sheikh Zayed suburb.
On this day..
- 2013: Li Xingpong, party official - 2019
- 1944: Seisaku Nakamura, Hamamatsu Deaf Killer - 2018
- 1985: Kent Bowers, the last hanged in Belize - 2017
- 1996: Daren Lee Bolton - 2016
- 1857: George Sharpe and John Johnson, Edwardsville murderers - 2015
- 1936: Arthur Gooch, the only execution under the Lindbergh Law - 2014
- 1699: Madame Tiquet, "nothing more beautiful" - 2013
- 1784: Jean Saint Malo, New Orleans Maroon - 2012
- 1937: Jan Sten, Stalin's tutor - 2011
- 1312: Piers Gaveston - 2010
- 1867: Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico, "Archdupe" - 2009
- 1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, "the first victims of American fascism" - 2008