03 April 2013 :

Ahmed Saleh Abdullah al-Ma’ouri was executed by shooting in a prison in al-Baydha, south-east of the capital, Sana’a, Amnesty International reported. He had been first sentenced to death for the murder of his wife and son in 2003. The Court of Appeal and Supreme Court upheld the sentence in 2004 but he was later pardoned, first by some members of his family and subsequently by then President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in January 2006. Soon afterwards, however, other blood relatives of the victims lodged a fresh complaint against Ahmed, which resulted in him being prosecuted and sentenced to death a second time in September 2006. The Court of Appeal upheld his sentence in 2008, as did the Supreme Court in 2010. The then President pardoned him again in 2010 on the basis that a pardon had been granted by the victims’ family, but later withdrew the pardon and ordered the execution to go ahead.