Despite appeals to President Ali Abdullah Saleh to overturn the death penalty for A'isha Al-Hamzi, 40, convicted of murdering her husband Yahya Al-Sharif six years ago, the woman was executed on Wednesday at the Central Prison in Sana'a.

The execution took place after her children, 7, refused to pardon her when she was brought to the execution site.

Under effective laws in Yemen, the killer of husband of wife can survive the capital punishment if his/her sons and daughters pardon murderer.

When the death sentence was carried out, her daughters tried to avoid seeing their mother shot but a prosecutor convinced them to come back and pardon their mother.

Regrettably, they turned back hearing the bullets shot on their mother.

Before she died Al-Hamzi ordered all her property to be used for charity activities with some to be given for her relatives who followed up her case at the authorities.

She has 3 sons and 4 daughters, the elder of whom is a young boy attending second grade at university while the junior is an eight-year daughter named Siham.

Al-Hamzi killed her husband in 2002 and was handed over to prosecution in the same year.

Her family planned to kill her at house after the crime but a judge who they wanted his advise about her killing rejected the idea and handed her to the authorities.

In 2003, she was convicted of the murder and sentenced to death.

Many human rights organization appealed to overturn the verdict against Al-Hamzi but all appeals were rejected.