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TX: Muslim immigrant sentenced to death over 2 honor killings
2018-08-15
[DailyMail]
  • Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan, 60, is a conservative Muslim immigrant from Jordan

  • He was convicted
    ...a few weeks ago...
    for the 2012 fatal shootings of his son-in-law Coty Beavers and an Iranian woman, Gelareh Bagherzadeh
    ...dead at age 30, the medical student and Iranian women’s rights activist was shot dead through her car window in the Houston townhouse complex where she until that moment lived...
  • Prosecutors say Irsan was enraged after his daughter, Nesreen Irsan, married Beavers, a 28-year-old Christian, and then converted to Christianity

  • Irsan is said to have blamed Bagherzadeh for persuading his daughter to marry Beavers

  • Irsan's wife, Shmou Alrawabdeh, testified that her husband tried to 'clean his honor' with the killings

  • Irsan, his wife and their son, Nasim, followed Bagherzadeh to her parents' home in January 2012, police said

  • That's when Nasim Isran fatally shot her in her car, according to authorities

  • Nasim Irsan, 24, is being held in Harris County jail on capital murder charges in the two slayings
Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418

#6  Wasn't he supposed to kill his daughter first?
Posted by: KBK   2018-08-15 20:09  

#5  This guy is gonna be the next Caryl Chessman to the left. Just watch.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-08-15 16:59  

#4  hangins too good for him
Posted by: 746   2018-08-15 14:35  

#3  Sir Charles Napier was an interesting man. His method for putting down insurgencies is something that ought to be remembered as well.

The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed

I think his idea of a good thrashing was a bit rougher than what the US military currently doles out.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2018-08-15 12:15  

#2  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.---General Sir Charles Napier

We had a "First Class Trial", now let's have a "First Class Hanging!"
Posted by: magpie   2018-08-15 10:56  

#1  If you must kill to clean your honor, the honor of the great State of Texas must do so as well. The people of this state demand nothing less.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2018-08-15 07:30  

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