Victim trying to save attacker from execution [story below]
It will be interesting to watch this play out.
Ahhhhhhh....I can see the msm headlines now: "Rick Perry allows execution of white supremacist despite racist ties." Then the lead-in: Despite Rick Perry's sympathy and support for the neo-Confederate movement he is allowing the execution of a white supremacist to move forward. Perry who is flirting with a run for the presidency in 2012, has denied his refusal to stay the execution has anything to do with whitewashing his past association with hate groups. //sarcasm
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July 15, 2011: AUSTIN - "A victim of a brutal hate crime is now trying to save his attacker from being executed.
Rais Bhuiyan has filed a lawsuit in Austin, naming Governor Rick Perry and several other officials, in an effort to save his attacker's life because he says he forgives him.
Bhuiyan was the second of three men of middle eastern descent to be targeted by an enraged white supremacist in Dallas, shortly after the 9/11 attacks. Bhuiyan was fortunate to survive after being shot in the eye while working at a Dallas convenience store.
The gunman, Mark Stroman, claimed to be apart of the Aryan Brotherhood and said he was targeting middle easterners as revenge for his sister who was killed in the terrorist attacks.
Stroman was sentenced to death in April of 2002 for fatally shooting the other two men working at convenience stores during the nearly three week long rampage.
But, Bhuiyan says Stroman has changed since the deadly attacks and his life should be spared. "If Mark is given a chance to live, I believe that he will become a spokesperson in raising awareness against hate crimes," said Bhuiyan. [snip]
The killer has “changed”. Good for him. Death Row can do that to one. The death penalty was legally rendered and forgiveness or the lack of it should have NO bearing on it being carried out. Fry, (or should it be chemical?), him.