Thursday, July 21, 2011

Lack of Involvement by Obama and U.N Draws Suspicion Over Latest Execution in Texas

Texas Inmate Mark "Arab Slayer" Stroman Executed



(CNN) -- Texas inmate Mark Anthony Stroman was executed Wednesday for the killing of a man from India in what Stroman believed to be revenge for the September 11, 2001, attacks, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said.

Stroman was put to death at 9:53 p.m. ET, the spokesman said.

Stroman, 41, made national headlines after he fatally shot Vasudev Patel during a shooting rampage after the 9/11 attacks. An admitted white supremacist, Stroman targeted those he believed were Middle Eastern in revenge for the attacks.

Patel was shot at the Mesquite, Texas, gas station that he operated.

A Pakistani man, Waqar Hasan, was also killed, and a Bangladeshi man, Rais Bhuiyan, was seriously wounded in separate attacks committed by Stroman, prosecutors said.

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