"Imagine hating women to the point of beating them to death and have it all sanctioned by your faith, clergy, state, community... "
While I'll agree women have a tough lot in the Muslim world at least the State is not sanctioning this, unless by sanction you mean being charged with murder. Hopefully justice will be served and this POS will be punished
Sharia supercedes civil law in most of these sick countries. Thus the state through it's absence to prosecute in effect sanctions the exercise. Look at Iran or Pakistan, Saudi Arabia or the Sudan, Nigeria, Oman, UAE, Iran, Afghanistan, Yemen and on and on and on....