2013: The Hawalli monster
June 18th, 2019 Headsman
On this date in 2013, Egyptian Hajjaj Saadi was hanged with countryman Ahmad Abdulsalam al-Baili at a car park in Kuwait.
Photographers were on hand to record the public execution, just the second in Kuwait since breaking a six-year moratorium on hangings. Saadi in particular was a reviled criminal, dubbed the “Hawalli monster” for the expat district of Kuwait City where he lived — and where, his prosecutors alleged, Saadi lured some 17 or 18 young children, both boy and girls, to rape.
Saadi strenuously denied the charges at trial, insisting that his confession was extracted by torture. No doubt it was. He also said he got no aid from the Egyptian embassy.
Ahmad Abdulsalam al-Baili murdered an Asian couple by torching their flat, and unsuccessfully tried to do the same to an Egyptian couple.
Caution: Mature content. The video in particular shows the actual hanging moment itself; it’s evident that Saadi, a muscular bodybuilder, survived the drop, and in the video he struggles against the rope.
Ahmad Abdulsalam al-Baili
Hajjaj Saadi
On this day..
- 1485: William de La Marck, the Wild Boar of the Ardennes - 2020
- Daily Double: Child Rape - 2019
- 2011: Ruyati binti Sapubi, migrant worker beheaded on film - 2018
- 1943: Maria Kislyak, honeytrapper - 2017
- 1759: Catharine Knowland, the last to hang on the Tyburn Tree - 2016
- 1862: James Andrews's raiders, for the Great Locomotive Chase - 2015
- 1950: Chen Yi, 228 Massacre author - 2014
- 1827: Isaac Desha pardoned by Gov. Joseph Desha - 2013
- 1953: 32 merciful Soviet soldiers - 2012
- 1800: Mario Cavaradossi, Tosca's lover - 2011
- 2010: Ronnie Lee Gardner, by musketry - 2010
- 1947: Shigematsu Sakaibara, "I obey with pleasure" - 2009
- 1975: Prince Faisal ibn Musa'id, royal assassin - 2008
Entry Filed under: 21st Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Egypt,Execution,Hanged,History,Mature Content,Murder,Public Executions,Rape,Ripped from the Headlines,Torture
Tags: 2010s, 2013, ahmad abdulsalam al-baili, hajjaj saadi, june 18, kuwait city, photography
Don’t rape children, don’t murder couples…