Sickening new pictures have emerged of a new form of ISIS execution - stabbing prisoners directly in the heart to kill them for their 'crimes against the caliphate'.
Images show a heavily-built executioner holding a knife against the chest of a man dressed in an orange jumpsuit in the terror group's Syrian stronghold, Raqqa.
The man, named by the news agency ABNA as Abdulhadi Essa al-Salem, was knifed in the heart before a shot was fired into his head.Shocking photos - posted on Twitter by Syrian activist group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently - then show the victim being crucified in public.
According to ABNA, he had been accused of co-operating with the US-led coalition.
It is the latest gruesome method of execution carried out by ISIS extremists.Yesterday, pictures emerged of another barbaric killing of a man for allegedly being homosexual.
The unidentified young man had been accused of 'sodomy', according to local sources, and was punished for this supposed 'crime' by being thrown off a five-storey building in Manbij, Aleppo province.
Pictures released by ISIS show the young man fall to his death in front of a large crowd, including dozens of children.ISIS is known for its brutal beheading of captives but has also shown prisoners being burned to death in cages and being drowned and blown up with explosives.
Meanwhile, stonings have become commonplace in areas controlled by the fanatics as they seek to impose their brutal form of sharia law.Adultery is a common accusation levelled at those killed by the jihadis - a crime punishable by stoning.
In front of gathered crowds, the victims are usually pelted by rocks until they're dead.
Town square beheadings and the severance of the limbs of those accused of stealing are also commonplace.
The spectacles are part of everyday life for citizens trapped under ISIS rule.
