Indian immigrant's murder: US man convicted

SIFY NEWS ^ | Wed, Oct 01, 2003

[JENNIFER_SMITH]

Washington: Rejecting claims of insanity, a jury convicted the man, who killed Indian immigrant Balbir Singh Sodhi after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, of first-degree murder.

Frank Silva Roque, who assumed the turbaned Sodhi to be an Arab terrorist and gunned down the Sikh immigrant outside his petrol pump on September 15, 2001, could get a death penalty for the murder.

The jury, which began the hearing late Monday in Arizona, also found Roque guilty of attempted murder, drive-by shooting and endangerment for two more racially motivated attacks.

Roque's lawyers argued that he was insane at the time of the shooting and suffered from mental illness his entire life.

The defence lawyers contended that Roque did not start using racial slurs until after the terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. PTI

[RLK]

This has happened before. In the late 80s or early 90s a groups of autoworkers saw an asian man in the parking lot at GM and figured he was a japanese responsible for the loss of GM sales. They beat him to death. It turned out he was an American engineer working for the company.

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[Natural Law]

This isiot should be executed for stupidity. The murder victim was a Sikh. These are a monotheistic people who have successfully fought Islamic extremists for over 500 years. In many ways they are our brothers in this fight.

[CGTRWK]

This isiot should have been executed for stupidity two years ago by now.