re: #184 Dark_Falcon

The White Supremacist who murdered an Indian man and a Pakistani man, and wounded another man in a bigoted rage after 9/11 will be executed on Wednesday. Rag on Texas all you want, but in this case I think executing this man is the right thing to do.

One of his victims is asking that his life be spared:

Bhuiyan believes that his attacker does not deserve to die and has created a website, worldwithouthate.org, to urge Texas to spare Stroman’s life.

“In order to live in a better and peaceful world, we need to break the cycle of hate and violence. I believe forgiveness is the best policy, which helps to break this cycle,” he said, calling himself a victim of a hate crime. “I forgave Mark Stroman many years ago. I believe he was ignorant and not capable of distinguishing between right and wrong. Otherwise he wouldn’t have done what he did.”

Bhuiyan traveled this month to Paris to urge the European Parliament to step in and file a formal request for Texas to commute Stroman’s sentence to life in prison.