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2018-07-29 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Jordanian immigrant found guilty of murder in Houston ‘honor killings’

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In a verdict hearing that ended in less than an hour after five weeks of jury trial deliberations, a Houston district court has convicted a Jordanian immigrant of murdering his daughter’s husband and another close friend in what prosecutors said were "honor killings".

Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan, 60, was found guilty of planning the two murders as part of broader plot to kill five people, including his daughter, after she bravely ran away from home, converted to Christianity and married a Christian man.

Family members of the victims said the quick verdict indicated that the jury was certain Irsan was guilty and that "honor killings" were unacceptable.

Michael Creed, the brother of Coty Beavers, one of the victims, said that "honor killings have no place in American society" and that "these are not infrequent events that happen in some random part of the world. They’re happening in America and they’re on the rise".

A punishment hearing began on Friday where the jury will determine if Irsan should be sentenced to death or life without parole for the double homicide of 28-year-old Beavers in November 2012 and Gelareh Bagherzadeh, an Iranian activist who was a close friend of Irsan’s daughter, 11 months earlier.

The mills of Justice grind slowly, but they grind exceeding fine.

Posted by Fred 2018-07-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top
File under: Moslem Colonists

#1 houston chronicle also did a story on this a few days ago but no national coverage

Posted by lord garth 2018-07-29 00:41|| 2018-07-29 00:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Can they make the straps on the gurney halal?

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-07-29 09:52|| 2018-07-29 09:52|| Front Page Top

#3 “Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs." - Charles James Napier

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-07-29 10:03|| 2018-07-29 10:03|| Front Page Top

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