Photo: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah
A man who was found guilty of the rape and murder of a three-year-old girl in Yemen paid the ultimate price for his sickening crimes when he was executed live on TV at point blank range.
The man who perpetrated the horrific crimes Muhammad al-Maghrabi, aged 41, was shown no mercy as the Yemeni justice system under Sharia law sentenced to him to death by public execution after he was found guilty of the rape and murder of three year Rana Yahya Al-Matari.
Al-Maghrabi who plead guilty to the charges brought before him was shot at point blank range by an armed police officer in front of a crowd of thousands of people, in the capital city of Sanaa.
Photo: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah
In what can only be described as the ultimate form of justice Al-Maghrabi met his fate after he was marched through the city with his hands tied behind his back in front of the cheering crowd who came out in their droves to watch him die.
The paedophiles execution which has since become a global news story came after he admitted to raping the girl in his hut in the south of the capital city on the first day of Eid al-Fitr
In the brutal video which was recorded by state media and thousands of onlookers, Al-Maghrabi is seen lying on a rug with an officer standing over who then proceeds to shoot him dead with a single shot to the head.