A court in Yemen sentenced Abed Abdulrazzak Kamel to...

A court in Yemen sentenced Abed Abdulrazzak Kamel to death for killing three Americans who worked at a Christian-run hospital in December 2002.
Kamel, 30, smuggled a gun into the hospital in the southern town of Jibla. He told police he shot the three, including the hospital director and a woman doctor, because they were Christian missionaries. Kamel allegedly walked into the hospital with a Kalashnikov rifle inside his jacket, entered a staff room and shot dead hospital administrator William Koehn, Kathleen Gariety and doctor Martha Myers.
Kamel then went to the hospital pharmacy and shot pharmacist Donald Caswell, who later recovered. Kamel condemned the verdict, saying he should have been tried by an Islamic court and not a civil court.
His lawyer said he would appeal against the sentence, which is usually enforced by firing squad.
"The ruling is a political one and violates Islamic Sharia law," Kamel told the court in Ebb province.