On this date in 2015, Islamic State militants occupying the Syrian oil city of al-Shaddadah or al-Shaddadi horrifically beheaded a man on a public square.
Just what action was compassed in his alleged offense of “insulting Allah” is not known; neither so far as I can find was his name. But he fought his killers furiously, and four men were required to wrestle him into the dust and immobilize him for the executioner’s sword. “I won’t forgive you, I am not the one who did it but you did Arabs and civilians of al-Shadadi,” he cried out to townspeople unwilling or unable to lift a finger on his behalf against the butchers.
Al-Shaddadah was recaptured from ISIS in February 2016.
On this day..
- 1866: The Nashville murderers of William Hefferman
- 1796: Jerzy Procpak
- 1950: Anton van der Waals, traitor
- 1318: Sir Gilbert Middleton, son of iniquity
- 1849: Andrew Tyler, clairvoyant
- 1681: Isabel Alison and Marian Harvey, Covenanters
- 1909: Remy Danvers
- 1894: George Painter, Chicago infamous
- 1891: Ramon Lopez, a Spaniard, aged 38 years
- 1996: John Albert Taylor, the last American to face a firing squad
- 1939: Three Men For Murder, But Not Isidore Zimmerman
- 2007: Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi, "the burden thus shifted to him"