Man Shot Dead With Machine Gun At Point Blank Range For Raping & Killing A 3-Year-Old Girl
41-year-old Muhammad al-Maghrabi, who raped and killed three-year-old Rana Yahya Al-Matari in his hut on the first day of Eid al-Fitr, was executed with a machine gun at point blank range under Sharia law in Yemen.
Hundreds gathered on Main Square in the capital city of Sanaa on Monday and many filmed the execution, which was broadcast on live TV across Yemen, on their mobile phones.
Pictures show the child rapist lying on the floor on a rug, his hands tied behind his back, as a police officer holds an AK47-style rifle against his back and opens fire.
Al-Maghrabi’s hands were bound behind his back as he emerged from the prison van (Picture: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah)
He was brought to the main square in Sanaa in an armoured van before soldiers laid him on the floor to carry out the sentence (Picture: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah)
As a crowd of thousands watched, one soldier fired shots through Maghrabi’s back, killing him instantly (Picture: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah)
Maghrabi lay on the floor with his hands bound behind his back before a soldier standing over him opens fire (Picture: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah)
Thousands of people carrying cameras gathered to watch the execution (Picture: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah)
Television cameras broadcast the sentence across the country while viewers filmed it on their phones (Picture: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah)
Sharia law is the source of all legislation in Yemen. Under the law, murder is punishable by the death sentence, though the family of the victim has the right to lessen the punishment. While beheading is common, Sharia does not specify how the death sentence should be carried out.
US should offer this option to anyone subject to the government sanctioned death penalty, as an alternative to lethal injection.
Executing the death penalty is a very serious decision for any government to make, the most extreme use of power possible.
We should be willing to use this machine gun approach if we are willing to allow the death penalty to be carried out.
Interesting thoughts, do you think it's more humane than lethal injection?
That's kinda risky firing directly at a hard surface. There appear to be a lot of bystanders in the area who could potentially be injured by ricochet. And I don't see one pair of ANSI approved safety glasses or hearing protection.
Savages.
That's what you care about most in that topic? You must either have a really hard stomach or you are a coldblooded veteran... :)
Sadly, I have a bit of a jelly-belly.
And while I'm not a vet, I've tended more and more as I've gotten older to at least try to stop judging the rest of the world by Murican standards.
Many Muricans are very silly.
I was thinking the exact same thing. Others can be injured!
Thank goodness Murica is bringing democracy to these backwards people so they can have freedom.
A good rule for rapist shot in front of peoples
If the offer was life in prison, without parole, or that, I would gladly submit to that. Might want to take simple precautions to keep others safe with machine gun fire.
Looks like there wasn't any parole offer for that crime in Yemen.
I'm not into sharia, by any stretch, but an eye for an eye really does keep crime stats low. Steal, lose your hand. Kill, lose your life. Keeps people honest.
He got what he deserved.
If she was 12 y/o not 3 y/o then they all would probably try to force marry her or would gang rape her if she refused or stone to death.