Six Somali migrant workers were publicly beheaded in Jeddah on this date in 2005 for robbing taxi drivers. The muggings, though violent, were not fatal to the drivers, so the punishment was quite harsh even by the harsh standards of KSA.
According to an Amnesty International researcher, the doomed men had not been “informed in advance that their five-year prison sentences, which they had served — and also been lashed — by May 2004, had apparently been changed later to death sentences by a secret procedure.” They were unaware until the morning of their execution that they had even been condemned to death.
Their names were Ali Sheikh Yusuf, Abdel-Fatar Ali Hassan, Abdullah Adam Abdullah, Hussein Haroon Mohamed, Abdul-Nur Mohamed Wali and Abdullah Hassan Abdu.
On this day..
- 1913: A day in the death penalty around the U.S.
- 1902: Clinton Dotson, bad son
- 1975: Pierre Galopin, hostage of Hissene Habre
- 1809: Four by William Brunskill at Horsemonger Lane
- 1895: William Lake
- 1884: Henry Rose
- 1205 or 1206: Jamukha, Genghis Khan's brother and rival
- 1962: James Hanratty, the killer all along
- 1994: Richard Beavers, hungry to die
- 1693: Anne Palles, the last witch executed in Denmark
- 1761: Theodore Gardelle, artist
- 1979: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan