On this date in 2009, Yemen police executed Abdullah Saleh Al-Kohali for machine-gunning a mosque at Bait al-Aqari village.
Despite what one might assume, Al-Kohali wasn’t a terrorist.
No, he was after a fellow clan member named Belal Al-Kohali over an affair of honor.
“He got my sister pregnant three times,” the killer complained to the court.
He did indeed manage to kill Belal Al-Kohali during weekly prayers … along with five other people who died on the spot, and four more besides them mortally wounded who later succumbed to their injuries.
On this day..
- 1590: Christopher Bales, Nicholas Horner, and Alexander Blake - 2020
- 1859: Pleasant M. Mask, wreck and ruin - 2019
- 1957: Larbi Ben M'Hidi, in the Battle of Algiers - 2018
- 1685: Thomas Fallowfield at Leicester Square and numerous others at Tyburn - 2017
- 1864: Three Idaho robbers, choked on gold - 2016
- 1852: "Brown", lynched in California - 2015
- 1656: The Chief Black and White Eunuchs of Topkapi Palace - 2013
- 1561: Cardinal Carlo Carafa, papal nephew - 2012
- 1780: The slave Violet, her head stuck on a pole - 2011
- 1771: Green Tea Hag, the beginning of Dutch Learning - 2010
- 1870: Thomas Scott, "take me out of here or kill me" - 2009
- 1388: Thomas Usk, leaving "The Testament of Love" - 2008
- Themed Set: The Written Word - 2008