SAN’A, Yemen — The Yemen news agency reports that a barber has been publicly executed after he was found guilty of raping and killing an 11-year-old boy who came to his shop for a haircut. Pictures of the execution…
Yemenis gather to watch a Yemeni soldier execute a man, lying face down on a large piece of red cloth, his hands bound behind him, in front of the central prison in San’a, Yemen, Monday, July 6, 2009. The Yemen news agency reports that a barber has been publicly executed after he was found guilty of raping and killing an 11-year-old boy who came to his shop for a haircut.
According to the news agency, SAB’A, the barber was arrested in December 2008 and confessed during a January trial to raping the boy inside his salon, killing him and cutting his body to pieces before dumping it outside San’a. SAN’A, Yemen — The Yemen news agency reports that a barber has been publicly executed after he was found guilty of raping and killing an 11-year-old boy who came to his shop for a haircut. Pictures of the execution Monday in the capital of San’a showed hundreds of people gathered around as Yehya Hussein was killed. The pictures showed the barber lying face down on a large piece of red cloth, his hands bound behind him, after a Yemeni police official standing over him with what appeared to be a machine gun shot him four times. According to the news agency, Saba, the barber was arrested in December 2008 and confessed during a January trial to raping the boy inside his salon, killing him and cutting up his body before dumping it outside San’a. ‘Character of our community is diminished.’ Borrego Springs group asks for short-term rental regulations‘We don’t have enough food’: Providers brace for thousands of San Diegans to lose SNAP benefits Its schools are falling apart, and voters won’t pass a bond. Could a little-used tactic help this district?A little-known Navy-Marine battle group from San Diego is making a beeline for the Middle EastSantee fire that prompted evacuations at shopping center charred 5 acres
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