Nineteen-year-old shoe-shiner Hosni Ramadan Mahmoud Ahmed and his friend Ramadan Abu Al-Magd Azab were hanged in Qena, Egypt on this date in 2006 for murdering Ahmed’s two-year-old stepdaughter.
“Apparently infuriated that the crying baby was disrupting their viewing of a football match on television,” read the crime blotter. “Ahmed smashed the two year old’s head against a wall and electrocuted her.
“The two men then dumped her body in a nearby school.”
On this day..
- 1994: Raymond Carl Kinnamon, filibusterer
- 1903: A day in the death penalty around the U.S. (and Canada)
- 1747: Serjeant Smith, deserter
- 1981: El Mozote Massacre
- 1812: John Rickey but not Benjamin Jackson
- 1895: Harry Hayward, the Minneapolis Svengali
- 1876: Basilio Bondietto
- 1861: Christopher Haun, potter and incendiarist
- 1970: Akira Nishiguchi, Vengeance Is Mine inspiration
- 1831: Gen. Jose Maria Torrijos y Uriarte and his liberal followers
- 1917: Thirteen black soldiers of the 24th U.S. Infantry Regiment
- 1962: Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin