Muhammad al-Maghrabi, accused of raping and murdering a three-year old girl, was publicly executed on Monday in Sanaa's Tahrir Square in Yemen. A policeman fired five bullets from an assault rifle into Muhammad al-Maghrabi, 41, as he lay with his hands handcuffed behind his back on a blanket on the ground in Sanaa's Tahrir Square, after a judge read out the death sentence.
The execution drew an unusually large number of onlookers, some perched up telegraph poles and many watching from rooftops, because of the young age of Rana al-Matari, the victim.

Muhammad al-Maghrabi, accused of raping and murdering a three-year old girl, was publicly executed on Monday in Sanaa's Tahrir Square in Yemen. A policeman fired five bullets from an assault rifle into Muhammad al-Maghrabi, 41, as he lay with his hands handcuffed behind his back on a blanket on the ground in Sanaa's Tahrir Square, after a judge read out the death sentence.
The execution drew an unusually large number of onlookers, some perched up telegraph poles and many watching from rooftops, because of the young age of Rana al-Matari, the victim.