The government of Jordan announced on Wednesday that it has executed two al-Queda prisoners in retaliation for the death Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh, the 26-year-old Jordanian pilot who was videotaped as he was burned alive in a cage by ISIS. Sajida al-Rishawi and Iraqi Al-Qaeda operative Ziad Karbul, were executed at dawn at Wastaqa prison in Jordan the day after the terror group released the horrific video.

Al-Rishawi was convicted and sentenced to death in a failed suicide-attack that killed at least 60 people dead and left many more injured in 2005. Her sentence was commuted after Jordan declared a moratorium on the death penalty, but she and four other death row inmates were moved to Wastaqa prison on Tuesday for execution.

The brutality of the 22-minute video shocked the civilized world. On Tuesday, Information Minister Mohammed Momani said “Jordan’s response will be earth-shattering,” and the Jordanian government pledged there would be “punishment and revenge against ISIS” for the sadistic act.

British Prime Minister, David Cameron, said, “al Kaseasbeh’s sickening murder will only strengthen our resolve to defeat ISil [Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant]. My prayers are with his family tonight.”

President Obama said from Washington, “It’s just one more indication of the viciousness and barbarity of this organization. This organization appears only interested in death and destruction,” and Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn) compared the brutality with “things we saw in 1945,” referencing scenes of the liberation of death camps under the Nazi Holocaust.

Al-Kaseasbeh had been a pawn in month-long negotiations between ISIS and Jordan that would have given him his freedom and spared the life of Japanese hostage, Kenji Goto, in exchange for the release of al-Rishawi. Jordan backed off the agreement after ISIS beheaded Goto and was unable to provide evidence that the pilot was still alive.

Intelligence analysts now say that al-Kaseasbeh was executed in late December, shortly after his capture when his F-16 crashed on Dec. 24., rather than on Feb. 3 when the video was released. The date of his death makes evident that ISIS had not been negotiating prisoner exchange in good faith and had no intention of ever releasing Gato or al-Kaseasbeh.