A Muslim militant connected to the 2002 murders of three Southern Baptist medical workers in Yemen was executed Nov. 27.
Ali al-Jarallah was blindfolded and shot in the courtyard of the central prison in San’a, Yemen’s capital, according to the Associated Press and other news services. Al-Jarallah was convicted and sentenced to death in 2003 for plotting the medical workers‚ deaths and for the assassination of a prominent national politician, Yemeni Socialist Party leader Jarallah Omar.