On this date in 2009, Yemen conducted the public execution of Yahia al-Raghwa for the rape-murder of an 11-year-old boy who had visited his barber shop the previous December.

Reportedly, the sentence had initially called for the man to be thrown from a high building as punishment for same-sex activity. Instead, it was “commuted” to the shooting depicted below, in the capital city of Sana’a. (ISIS has carried out such executions-by-precipitation more recently.)

Warning: Mature Content. (Actually only the very last image is truly bloody.)

On this day..

• 1961: Edwin Bush, Identikitted
• 1791: Joseph Wood and Thomas Underwood, children
• 2018: Shoko Asahara and six Aum Shinrikyo followers, for the Tokyo sarin attack
• 1835: Five professional gamblers lynched at Vicksburg
• 1962: Roger Degueldre, OAS commando
• 1999: Gary Heidnik, serial kidnapper
• 1631: Giles Broadway and Lawrence Fitzpatrick, for consistency
• 1977: Hu Nim, Cambodian Minister of Information
• 1415: Jan Hus, reformer of religion and language
• 1816: Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Colombian Renaissance man
• 1840: Francois Benjamin Courvoisier, for the murder of Lord Russell
• 1535: Thomas More, the king's good servant but God's first