One Possible Explanation:
After murdering his daughter and attempting to murder her protector, Faleh Al-Maleki fled to the UK. A reader pointed out that perhaps the UK would not have him were he to face the death penalty. Perhaps this is the reason the prosecutors took the death penalty off the sentencing table. I have no way of knowing whether this was the case. However, the UK is bound by the European Court of Human Rights which, in the past, has ruled in just this way. For example, in the 1989 case of Soering vs UK, a German citizen committed a murder in Virginia, after which he fled to England. The United States asked for his extradition. The House of Lords approved it but Soering filed a claim with the European Commission of Human Rights. After Virginia assured the Europeans that Soering would not face the death penalty, the UK sent him back to America.
If so: Why have the prosecutors remained silent about this? And why did public defender, Billy Little, and the media present these facts as if Little’s argument had actually won the day for his client?
Arizona Prosecutors Won’t Seek Death Penalty in Honor Killing
Remember the case in which Faleh al-Maleki, an Iraqi-American father brutally ran over his daughter, Noor, in Arizona, then attempted to escape but was apprehended in Britain and returned to face justice?
Guess what’s just happened? The Arizona prosecutors have been scared off seeking the death penalty. Public defender Billy Little raised the specter of “How will it look for Christians to execute a Muslim?”
I kid you not.
Billy Little asked the judge to “take special precautions to ensure the County Attorney’s Office wouldn’t wrongly seek the death penalty because Almaleki is a Muslim.” Little called for an “open process (to) provide some level of assurance that there is no appearance that a Christian is seeking to execute a Muslim for racial, political, religious or cultural beliefs,” referring to County Attorney Andrew Thomas’ Christian faith.
Faleh and Noor al-Maleki
Whoa!
Words fail me here. Are Christian lawyers, by definition, hopelessly biased against Muslims? This is a fact not in evidence. Is the public defender Christian? Why should this matter in America? What if the judge is Christian? Does Billy Little understand that Muslim judges do not usually prosecute men who honor murder their wives, sisters, or daughters?
Phyllis: that your column should be read by everyone becomes obvious when one reads how the MSM played this story. When I first read a brief story about this horrific decision in the NY Post, there was NO MENTION of any of the important details you point out: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/dad_accused_of_honor_killing_of_bzENCDXbRjzDW5AInbQMmK. I commented to my wife, how idiotic the decision was, which I first learned by opening your Chronicles. Now, I am even more outraged that the question of a “Christian bias” was used to convict the system rather than the killer. In the story by the Arizona Republic, they at least gave the background details of Little’s belittling so-called “argument.” However, once again, at the end of the story, it was not the evil teachings of this killer dad’s religion that was the cause of his beautiful daughter’s death, but “cultural.” Interesting that the reporter did not seem to make mention that islam is a culture: a culture of death. islamic abortion is what I call it.
If al-Maleki is sentenced to life imprisonment and dies in jail, he won’t be a martyr and therefore won’t get 72 virgins in heaven.
“open process (to) provide some level of assurance that there is no appearance that a Christian is seeking to execute a Muslim for racial, political, religious or cultural beliefs,”
A British official in India had an appropriate response to this sort of nonsense. He told the Indian men that they could go ahead and burn the widow—but he would then hang them for violating the objectively moral standards of Great Britain. Unsurprisingly, the practice of suttee came to an abrupt halt.
It’s so bizarre how everybody seems to tiptoe around Islam these days. The more crap that goes on, the more Americans seem to defend it. This a truly unique moment in American psychology. I would find it fascinating except that I take it too personally, and can’t even wrap my head around what is going on. Are the Arizona officials too afraid of what will happen if a muslim who murders his daughter because of the teachings of Islam, gets the death penalty? Are the folks in charge just trying to avoid some sort of “God Knows What Sh&%t Hitting The Fan” scenario by you know who? Oh yes, what Irresponsible Ugly Inflamatory Language I am using. How terribly offensive the liberals must be by my neanderthal world view. Oh I am So Part Of The Problem. And yet, I feel perhaps this is what is going on in their heads, but they are too afraid to even explain themselves. This whole thing is seriously Alice In Wonderland.
In this state it really doesn’t matter anyways, the State of Arizona doesn’t have the guts to execute people. Maliki would only die of old age while sitting on death row, like inmate Viva Nash who died last week in a prison medical wing at the age of 94 and was then the oldest inmate in the US on death row.
Billy Little apparently has no faith in the law at all. Other scenarios that Little could be worrying about: How would it look for a male to convict a female, a Baptist to convict a Jew, a Jew to convict a black, a black to convict a white, a white to convict a Muslim, a Muslim to convict a Jew?
A fair justice system would ensure that no one is unfairly convicted.
Is Little really worried about the anticipated Muslim protests to a conviction, which could turn violent — as past experience shows?
The death penalty is applied in “racially biased ways?” Umm… and your evidence is?
Oh, that a preponderance of Negro and Mexican people are on death row? Sure, because a preponderance of those races commit murder.
That single stupid statement biased and spoiled your dissertation.
I don’t care if a Martian commits murder; the death penalty is there for a reason. This Muslim trash should be put to death.
This is how political Islam works. They have two sets of rules: one for muslim men and one for the rest of us. The golden rule does not apply to the rest of us. They use fear and intimidation to get what they want wherever they are. They are expected to work for jihad by killing non muslims, giving money, or causing trouble to anyone who dares to differ. We really need to wake up.
The issue isn’t really about his lawyer trying to defend him from the death penalty; that’s what defense lawyers get paid to do and that is what our system of law advocates.
The issue is will this silly and stupid defense work in Arizona? To paint Christians as those who only murder fellow Christians, Jews, Buddhists and seculars but not Muslims is ridiculous! All religions have blood on their hands from murdering other humans.
I agree with you about the death penalty because not all the people we murder are guilty. Until that glaring problem is resolved, except in the worst of the worst cases–911, McVeigh, Mohammed and so on, we should keep them behind bars till death.
Agree with ‘Ed’ on this one. That last statement was stupid. There is no evidence to back up that claim. A cold-blooded murderer is a cold-blooded murderer – whether it be Timothy McVeigh or a gun-toting black assasin.
The death penalty does not deter. Why not just be consistent and seek life in prison without parole consistently for all murder cases?
Our country use to be a country of laws for all of it’s people within our borders and over the last thirty years these laws have disintergrated like
garbage. Try changing laws in any foreign country to suit ours and we are asked to leave, put in jail or whatever is the law of that country. Either we protect what made this country what it was and the reason so many people escaping from the persecution accept our laws whatever their religious beliefs or find a country to accept them and allow them to kill their daughters for learning to live in our society and freedom from persecution.
Death to Faleh! A slow painful death, may be stoned to death, or whipped to death with bull whips. I am outraged that this is not obvious to all. Killing a child is unforgivable.
America is filled with gutless lawyers , politicians , and professors . but also filled with conniving and deceitful lawyers , politicians , and professors . an filled with vicious snakey lawyers , politicians , and professors – an Muslims . – America , not what it REMOTELY USED TO BE . An our schools an colleges just keep teaching the things that produce MORE OF THEM .
Julia NYC: You are not alone. It’s surreal. Completely surreal. I am at a loss for what is to be done? And the minute you criticise this religo-political ideology, yes you are called a “racist” and yes a neanderthal. Multiculturalism is killing us. We are a vastly superior culture who has done more than anyone on the planet to assure freedom and justice for all, to assure everyone the right to pursue happiness. But the liberal left, and BO, are selling us down the river? He goes to Cairo, that butcher shop of female genital mutilation, and tells the Muslims they are a great culture? WTF? And the sad thing is: what is being done to women in Islamic culture is the greatest human rights abuses of our time and the world, especially BO, turns their backs. Iranians are dying in the streets, being hung in gallows, all for freedom and the world turns their backs? We have got to stop the multicultural myth. And we have got to stand up to Muslims without the fear of being called racists. In Europe, they have already successfully conquered through birthrate alone. It is up to America to save the free world. Because when it comes to China and Russia, and more and more it is looking like America does not have the backbone to stand up to Islam, they, China and Russia will not be so kind. We are committing cutural suicide by apologizing to these barbarians and letting them run roughshod all over us. It will not surprise me if in the end the defense gets Faleh off the hook entirely.
The more I read about prosecutorial abuse and rogue police & the more I read about people being exculpated after decades in prison, the more skeptical I am about the death penalty.
Nevertheless, if the death penalty is ever warranted, it is warranted here.
I can imagine a radical imam preaching, “You see? The infidels are weak. They are cowards in act, in speech, and in thought. Allah has beclouded their minds. In their hearts they have already lost.”
Imagine that.
A defense attorney trying to save his client.
What will they think of next?
I hope the prosecutor in Arizona is an elected officer or appointee and that someone can be held accountable for this!
I regret that you feel the way you do about the death penalty. If used properly, quickly and judiciously we would not have as many murderers running around. It just doesn’t seem right to me that a murdering pig like Faleh al-Maleki gets to spend only part of the rest of his life in jail while his daughter gets to spend absolutely zero time enjoying the rest of her life. I say that in consideration of the idea that some liberal judge at some point in time will feel that this murdering pig Faleh has done enough time or is showing repentance or some such nonsense and will set him free. So here’s an idea. If the public defender Billie Little is so concerned about the appearance of a “Christian” jury convicting this murdering pig Faleh to death why not have a jury composed of all Jews? Heck the Jews get blamed for everything anyway, right. So what’s one more little item to blame them for. I wonder what Noor’s last thoughts were as she was being crushed to death by the family vehicle driven by her own Dad.
You got my all-time favorite reference to multiculturalism, David. It was from Sir Charles Napaier, the conqueror of Sind, who while engaged in stamping out suttee was told by an indignant Brahmin that suttee was one of their customs.
“In my country, too, we have a custom,” Napier told him. “When men burn women alive we hang them. Next to your pyre my carpenters will erect a gallows. Then let each of us act according to his custom.”
One of the many, many reason I long ceased calling myself a leftist was this sort of thing: People will excuse the foulest, most vile practice if it’s done by someone who can be deemed by virtue of residence, religion, or skin color an oppressed victim. Many of the women who would be outraged and being addressed as, “Honey,” will explain away honor killings or female mutilation (which is what female circumcision is) or the subordination of women.
I am, I freely grant, not a multiculturalist. I think some cultures are better than others and a culture that subordinates women and at best looks away when women are killed over “honor” is not as good as a society that doesn’t allow that sort of thing.
I stand aghast–this sorry excuse for a human murdered his own daughter. I disagree somewhat with Dr. Chesler on capital punishment but in this case if they fried the guy I would sleep perfectly soundly knowing that someone else may think twice before deciding to off his own child and in any case this is one outrage he’ll never commit again.
***“In my country, too, we have a custom,” Napier told him. “When men burn women alive we hang them. Next to your pyre my carpenters will erect a gallows. Then let each of us act according to his custom.”***
Good for Napier! But when I read that, I couldn’t help thinking – would that they had thought that way during the Inquisition, huh?
The relevant issue is, the intentional murder of a human being is punishable by death. Render unto Caesar…. and in this case, the death penalty is Caesar’s judgment if a jury of 12 decides he is guilty.
Whether one agrees w/ the death penalty or not, it is the law of the land in Arizona. Therefore, if found guilty, he can be executed.
That he took the life of a child makes his crime even more reprehensible. If my father had killed my sister because he objected to her lifestyle &/or her boyfriend, he would have faced the death penalty. Its as simple as that.
That someone has brought this up shows a decided bias in the court system & is cause for the case to be reassigned to a more impartial court where the law will be applied, not political correctness.
When we adjust or apply our laws to relieve another of their responsibility because of their faith, race, creed, color of skin, national origin, etc., then we have lost the objectivity of justice in our legal system. It also means the law will be applied to the rest of us, improperly or disproportionately.
This prosecutor, local judges, etc., must recuse themselves & require this case to be tried in a more objective venue to assure true justice is done. Who knows, perhaps it was an accident? The point is, their words already show a bias that is unacceptable in our system!
Dear Phyllis
Yopu raise very deep moral and philosophical questions. Not whether or not the honour killing is wrong–there is no question that it is outside the bounds of civilized standards as we understand them in the Judeo-Christian West; but rather–the really difficultions–how we deal with the persons who perpetrate this crime, the ones who ask our society to be tolerant of their intolerant ways, and the proprieties in managing a legal system that is secular and supposedly fair, liberal and sensitive.
Norman
How would it look if Christians executed a Muslim for honor-murder? Serious.
Well that is going about it the wrong way. One could ask also, how does it look if a black man is executed, how does it look if a woman is executed…and so on, and so forth.
If the laws of the country are ignored, why have the law? If he is guilty, he is not different from others who are guilty. If he is different from others who are guilty, we need to re-try everyone to find out just how they also are different.
This is indeed a very dumb approach and to tell the truth, speaks more about the ability of his legal defense to think rational.
Public defender Billie Little raised the specter of “How will it look for Christians to execute a Muslim?”
JUSTICE-Mr Little, it would look like justice. Justice for Noor the poor dead woman, and our way of life.
it is akin to a continual stream of diahrrea, a river of it running through us.
barry is an islamic lover or a closet moslem, and i believe the latter is the case. while he lauds them, the facts are quite different. these cretins are perverted and deranged.
when he is voted out, we will finally be free of them. and barry.
“The death penalty does not deter.”
But it does significantly reduce recidivism.
First Reaction: now let’s wait to Riots of Moderates claiming Justice for the murdered Girl ….
Second: actually Christians executing an Islamic person (Man) will be manipulated by Islamists and Terrorists. It is a Fact, and Americans have to protect themselves.
Third: the Multicultural Ideology is anyway trying to introduce different Laws, for different Communities – this Man is going to be judged according to his (bloody) Shari’a Law.
Fourth: George Janchowitz is Right – this Criminal will be called (and praised as) a Marthyr; and instead of a Punishment to him, this will be a Prize for him.
Fifth: if he gets executed because he – actually – killed an Islamic person, this could be seen as an Enforcement of Shari’a Law. Everyone who kills an Islamic person has to be killed ….
Ed, #7:
You’re wrong. Blacks convicted of murder get the death penalty at a higher proportion than Whites convicted of murder.
You can close your eyes, but that doesn’t mean racism isn’t rampant in our judicial system. Feel free to google any of these studies:
“University of Iowa law professor David Baldus found that during the 1980s prosecutors in Georgia sought the death penalty for 70 % of black defendants with white victims, but for only 15% of white defendants with black victims.”
“The DOJ study also revealed the influence that the race of the victim has in determining potential capital cases. U.S. Attorneys recommended the death penalty in 36 % of the cases with black defendants and non-black victims, but only recommended the death penalty in 20 % of the cases with black defendants and black victims.”
“While white victims account for approximately one-half of all murder victims, 80% of all Capital cases involve white victims. Furthermore, as of October 2002, 12 people have been executed where the defendant was white and the murder victim black, compared with 178 black defendants executed for murders with white victims.”
#24 – how does (not would) it look when (not if) a muslim executes a christian for being a christian? seriously.
It would look wonderful to me.
If you purposely run over your daughter to murder her, and you live in a death-penalty state, it’s up to the jury.
If they say “Death,” you get the needle.
Period.
Kill him.
(Btw, the whole “the death penalty doesn’t deter crime” argument is B.S. It absolutely does. But even if it doesn’t, there are some cases in which Justice demands no less, and premeditated murder of your own child is one of them.)
Just political correctness gone wild, you can see this is a pernicious form of mental illness leading to absurd & surreal decisions that make zero sense. This mental disease has become the dominant ideology of Europe, a Europe that is sinking fast. Allowing this multi-culturalist crap to flourish in America will be the end of us. People will die as a result of this nonsense.
I’m sorry, but won’t it be the state of Arizona executing him?
“… Does Billy Little understand that Muslim judges do not usually prosecute men who honor murder their wives, sisters, or daughters? …”
I understand, of course, that this is a rhetorical question. Billy Little understands these things quite well. It’s just that Billy Little is a *lawyer*, and this is the typical, cynical behavior we have come to expect of them. These days there is no argument so absurd, no tactic so low, that it cannot be attempted in the courtroom. And given how often these tactics work these days, can you blame him? Would you blame a pig for eating food left unattended?
Well, I guess if we’re gong to be a diverse society that respects one and others culture than honor killing is just a cultural norm that Americans should just learn to respect…along with machismo, female genital mutilation and Jamaican meat pies.
How will it look if, after a fair trial, jury members who are all Christian vote for and a judge who happens to be Christian imposes the death sentence on a person who is Muslim and has been found guilty of premeditated murder in the first degree?
It will look like JUSTICE has been done. In fact, JUSTICE will have been done.
In the traditional American system of justice, there is no special exemption for Muslim males who intentionally kill their wives, sisters and daughters.
The Arizona prosecutors involved here should be fired.
Miss Chessler, I have silently praised every article I’ve read of yours, but, this time, I have to agree with Ed #7.
What is the evidence that the death penalty is applied in “racially biased ways?”
Oops. Sorry for misspelling your name in prior post.
The only way Billy Little would *not* realize how sick and twisted this act was is if a) he’s deliberately suppressing the urge to vomit and doing what he’s paid to do the only way he knows how, or b) he’s so far out to left field that Babe Ruth couldn’t hit a ball to him. Personally, it’s a coin toss.
On the one hand, if I were in that position and had to defend this scum, I’d have to think up some pretty silly excuses to get the jury to at least reduce the sentence. Silly as it seems, these guys have to make a living, and if they have to bend or break their principles to do it, then so be it.
On the other hand, there are a lot of left-wing lunatics out there, such as Nancy Pelosi, who thinks that we ought to just open up our borders and let everyone come in regardless of whether they’d be counted or productive members of our society, and Ted Kennedy (God rest his soul) who stopped a large, carbon-neutral wind project because it *blocked his otherwise pristine view of the ocean*. In light of these idiots who have that kind of power, it doesn’t seem too far-fetched to think Little is yet another in a long line of liberal loonies who think that just because we happen to be successful as a nation, we need to be demolished.
BIlly the Idiot must have graduated cum laude from Political Correctness College. This is outrageous! Throw this guy out and the Muslim goes to the firing squad or whatever they want to do with him. It is not OK in in the United States of America for one to go about killing wives and children. So, Billy, get with the program or get out of the way!
31. Need to know Numbers and Contextes of the Murders (Who against whom, how, when, why, …), before DIRECTLY percentaging the Jury’s Verdicts.
Is harshly condeming Iraki (“Non-white”) Faleh AlMaliki an Act of White Racism? Otherwise:
. was Faleh AlMaliki aware of Western Opinion about Honor/Horror murdering a Female Relative, because considered “too westernized” (while living in the West)?
. Did Faleh AlMaliki premeditated her Murder?
. How did other Family Members react to the Murder? Which was their Opinion about Noor’s Lifestyle?
IF IT IS NOT A RELIGIOUS CRIME (ISLAMIC AGAINST NON-ISLAMIC),
IT IS A RACIST CRIME (MIDDLE-EASTERN AGAINST WESTERN),
OR A POLITICAL CRIME (ISLAMISTIC AGAINST NON-ISLAMISTIC).
Immigrant Families should subscribe a Document where they certify that they renounce to their Countryhome’s Law and they fully accept the Country of Immigration’s Law.
Penalty for breaking the Contract included (Deportation, …).
Let’s follow the premise that any Muslim dying, constitutes ‘self-defense’. If not now, certainly in the future.
Billy Little what?
And BTW, lumping Apache and Navajo with the same respect is much like treating honor-killing “islamicists” with Muslims generally. Navajos had a civilization.
We are a nation of laws if the prosecutor, community or state is unwilling to do their job the involved should be replaced. This is a question of murder not religion, politics or morality. What is this nation coming to when the first question asked, is this politically correct?
The QUICK death penalty should be eliminated.
Instead, a convicted felon should be inoculated a virus of a sickness (H1N1-type stuff, etc.) and not be allowed to get medical care. He’ll die of natural causes.
Ironically, only last week a Jewish prisoner was executed in the State of Florida. But while many Jewish organizations argued for clemency based on the circumstances of the case, none asked “How would it look if Christians in Florida executed a Jew?” Muslims expect not equality before the law but special consideration. They shouldn’t get it.
This judge just decided the dealth penalty does not apply to anyone in Arizona no matter how heinous the crime. And this crime was heinous and premeditated. What a precedence!
Your column proves once again why there used to be a reason for allowing certain groups from certain cultures to settle here. Because the cultures were compatible. Nowadays, the more bizarre and antagonistic to the host culture, the more they are welcomed. The immigration laws need to be changed. This is one step removed from Sharia Law. In America it is hoped that one’s religious identity can co-exist with one’s duties as a citizen. Obviously for many of the “religion of peace” that is not an option. We are importing disharmony, disunity, hostility, and a profound hatred for our way of life. What is the point and purpose? Oh yes. More shock troops for the left wing cultural revolution. Using the logic you described, the man who was just convicted of murdering Dr. Tiller, the abortionist, can plead that he is being persecuted for his religious beliefs. And why are his less sacred than that of the Moselm?
Enjoy your dhimmitude. Our elected officials are imposing it, because they are wimps and fools.
I have all the respect for Islam that it has for me.
“and innocent people have been executed”
Who?
What are their names?
not wrongfully sentenced but actually put to death.
How come we never hear anyone say the obvious let stop all Muslim immigration!!!
Why would we now care about this issue when it happens in the States?
Why did we stand on the islamic side when they used their islamic rules on the serbian people in Bosnia, while cutting their heads for being Christians? And someone here said “it’s time to wake up”. How many Christians in other parts of this world woke up and died from this religion while you stood on their side without knowing the real truth. Yes indeed, it’s time to wake up and see what the States does supporting islam and mujahedins in Bosnia and now in the States too. Islam seems to be in control worldwide and non-islamists are always afraid of them. They kill and get away with it always. What a shame!
If the public defender Billie Little is so concerned about the appearance of a “Christian” jury convicting this murdering pig Faleh to death why not have a jury composed of all Jews? Heck the Jews get blamed for everything anyway, right.
Here’s some more humor for you: an all-Jewish jury would probably acquit the guy.
On to Phyllis’s note, “Faleh al-Maleki is a Muslim who also killed a Muslim.” Haha, asking for trouble! The L.A. cops have been berated by local pols for 1) overzealous enforcement targeting Black criminals, and 2) underzealous enforcement leaving Black victims exposed. The race game never ends.
54. Tsepes:
Oh for heaven’s sakes, google it. It happens.
I suspect that the capital crime rate among Muslims is about to explode.
Any argument that contains the directive “if you only undertood” “believe me”, or “look it up” is probably false or backed up only by belief (fake but accurate).
If Az calls for the death penalty in this case, so be it.
Unless we are going to allow Islam to rule America, we cannot back down on our laws to appease religion.
Are we wieners?…if we back down on these cases …we need to reexamine our own moral/ethical system.
Muslim should be treated as the Japanese during WWII.
Instead we treat these miserable Islam/Muslim people like honored guests as they run amuck in our country.
It was premeditated murder , Kill him.
59 – It’s a pretty serious charge to say the state executed the wrong man.It should be backed up.If it were true we should never hear the end of it.The name would be plastered all over at protests and invoked daily to flagellate against the death penalty,soooo it should be very easy to produce the name of an innocent man tried,convicted and executed in the U.S.
Put this one on unscrupulous lawyers in a system that allows unscrupulous lawyers. Even if every other person involved with this case, including the death penalty proceedings and detainment, it (Little’s contention), of course, still wouldn’t matter about the “appearance” of Christians persecuting a Muslim. And if they were to change course even one degree for that regard then they are admitting that same degree of guilt towards the same type of murder that the Iraqi-American father is guilty of. An honor-killing. Making them equal now, by degrees. They must not be allowed to be on that similar level. One is murder, and the other is the God-sanctioned community coming together to put away the murderer. We must not put on their hat for one second. Their propaganda is very powerful in it’s extremism.
And, you know, this speaks of the foolishness that prevails with Liberals these days. That they try on numerous hats for that sake alone. In the end they will not escape their own faithless and wayward hearts, because they have put aside righteousness for a tingling sensation, for boredom, or lack of regard for what is true (while all along claiming the opposites). For the temporariness of life they have rejected righteousness. That is their indictment.
Correction to the beginning of 63. It should read ,Even if every other person involved with this case, including the death penalty proceedings and detainment ‘were Christian’…
Oh, that’s just great. Little Billie wants to put this guy in prison where he can help convert more prisoners to the radical muslim fold. As usual, liberals are clueless.
How would it look if an ugly man who killed his beautiful daughter were executed? It would look so good that the execution should be televised so the other nut cases could see what happens to ugly cruel murderers who take beautiful innocent lives.
I really hope you don’t teach anymore.
Almaleki is charged with first-degree murder, aggravated assault and two counts of leaving the scene of a serious accident. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
The decision not to seek the death penalty comes after Almaleki’s attorney, Billy Little, a public defender, asked a judge to take special precautions to ensure the County Attorney’s Office wouldn’t wrongly seek the death penalty because Almaleki is a Muslim.
Little requested that the office make public the process it uses to determine whether to seek capital punishment.
“An open process provides some level of assurance that there is no appearance that a Christian is seeking to execute a Muslim for racial, political, religious or cultural beliefs,” Little wrote, referring to County Attorney Andrew Thomas’ Christian faith.
Laura Reckart, a county prosecutor, responded that Little’s concern about the “supposed bias” of the office’s death penalty review process was “without legitimate factual or legal basis.”
She wrote that the state can seek the death penalty for any person convicted of first-degree murder if it can prove the existence of at least one aggravating factor, not because of religion.
However, the debate stopped there. On Tuesday, Reckart filed a motion indicating prosecutors would not seek the death penalty.
I supppose to someone completely lacking critical faculties, it appears that Little is some kind of magician, and that the words he spoke commanded the justice system to do his bidding. Its a good thing you’re not in a position to actually influence anyone’s opinion.
The reason stereotypes exist is that people continue to prop them up by bad, horrid, uncivilized behavior. If those people on whom these impressions rest would stop engaging in said behaviors the stereotypes would no longer exist.
For example if some Muslim men would not treat their wives, children and female relatives like cattle, the rest of the world wouldn’t think of them as fascist, ignorant, sexist pig men. (offense sooooo intended).
There are other stereotypes of course but I think I’ve been offensive enough for one morning. I must say that those who come to this country that can’t or won’t abide by our laws should be given (yes, free of charge) a plane ticket to the country of their choice. Whether their wives and daughters go with them is totally up to the wives and daughters. The caveat is they can never return to the US, not to visit, get health care, or even to die. Persona non grata on steroids, but then I’m a reactionary. It’s, as some say, how I roll.
I wanted to add…
We have many people, natoinalities, ethnic gorups that come to America to escape where they have been. They come here and then try to turn America into the place they just came from.
You must follow the law of the land/country you are now in.
Your old laws are of no consequence here.
I don’t care if you were encouraged to marry 9 year old girls, or had sex with a goat on your lawn on Wednesdays in the country you came from, you don’t do it here.
If your religion calls for killing, go back where you came from , that is not the law in America.
We cannot tolerate these people any longer.
I don’t care that they wear clothes different than we do, or eat different foods, this is fine.
However, murder is murder
no matter how you spell or define it.
Arizona needs to get it’s head screwed on and realize this is the United States not an Islamic country.
I don’t care if this man is Muslim or Martian, the law is the law, follow it.
This is how Muslim violence serves the Muslim community. Prosecutes are fearful of throwing the book at him. Making an example out of him will draw attention to themselves. Because they have lives and families that could be attacked at any moment, they hold back. In Clan societies it is important that the clan is feared, that gives the individual clan member protection and confidence. That is why nonviolent Muslims are so unhelpful in stopping this.
Many in our society still refuse to believe what Islam is. Islam is devoid of the golden rule. Islamic morality is fear and dominance based. Morality that we take as bedrock and natural is not in Islam. That is why every majority Islamic society today is in a state of object poverty and culturally retarded. Except for the Oil states who have money but are totally dependent on non-muslim technical labor to function.
How would it look for Christians to execute a Muslim? It would look like we’re refusing to be dhimmis, which is exactly why we should put him to death! In fact, crucify him! Scum like that should die in the manner most loathsome to them, so crucify him!
This is the worst excuse to circumvent the law I’ve ever heard. That cowardly prosecutor should resign immediately. Billy Little has no idea how our justice system works, or he never would have let his words be put on record.
The principle of the rule of law guides our courts and is blind to all who come before it, that all may be treated equally.
Mr. Little, you have failed. Please resign and make way for someone who will apply the law in its’ intended manner.
If deathpenalty exists, the law should be same for anyone, regardless religion, color, race. Otherwise remove such penalty from your law and all these silly discussions will not exist. Simple. Or, maybe islamic funds are changing the law as it suits them? Or maybe the law is not the same for everyone and has maybe never been?
Let the muzzie go. Let Little billie take his place. Also, at what time did muslim become a race? Religion is something you chose.
11. Marion L.:
The death penalty does not deter. Why not just be consistent and seek life in prison without parole consistently for all murder cases?
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The death penalty is just that a penalty. Any deterrence is secondary and not the point of penalizing.
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75. wildman:
Let the muzzie go. Let Little billie take his place. Also, at what time did muslim become a race? Religion is something you chose.
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Muslim is a race for the intellectually dishonest and miseducated. This is America where everything has to do with race and if you don’t agree with everything some one different says you are a racist.
If that defense works for tax evasion or getting out of traffice tickets, then call me Mohammed.
George Jochnowitz wrote:
No, he won’t, but there will be 72 Virgin DEMONS with anvil-shaped genitalia, which will disembowel him upon his arrival in Hell!
Racism is something everyone screams when they want to tear someone down. If this Muslim bastard wants to run over his children because he can’t force them in to doing what he wants then he needs to die. The Arizona law is clear if you kill some on premeditated then you are to be put to death, it does not matter if you are a Muslim, Christian, or a Jew. Your religion has nothing to do with it you are a person and you took another’s life, you are to suffer for that. Eve the all the books from all the faiths say the same thing, “and eye for an eye”, so then it will be a life for a life.
Yet another case where, if the victim is not politically connected, it is OK to kill her. After all, just because someone is willing to kill on a whim, doesn’t mean he is a danger to the people around him or anything. It’s not as if he had killed a real human being, like a policeman, lawyer, or judge.
It is time to face the fact that if a person is willing to kill once, he will be willing to kill again. Capital punishment is not about deterring crime, it is about removing unacceptable hazards from our civilization. It is a very final kind of removal, and therefore should only be used when there is no doubt, however unreasonable, of the defendant’s guilt. It should not, however, depend on the identity of the defendant or the victim, as it does in our current system.
Hmmm I wonder what happened to our justice system? I thought the law was to apply equally to all in this country and if it doesn’t then it is wrong! If it is determined that this was a capital offense then apply the law as it would be regardless of any factors!
Just a Sharia alert: it is against Muslim law for an Infidel (that’s us) even to try a Muslim. Certainly it is unacceptable to hold such a Muslim to Infidel standards of justice.
So, what Little was doing was implementing, to the extent possible, Sharia on American soil. I think that’s called “treason.”
Hum, two counts of leaving the scene of a serious accident when it was premeditated murder? Somehow that does not compute, unless they’re going to play the lets make a deal game. You don’t go for the death penalty and we’ll cop a plea to the lesser included. Culture and religion has nothing do do with it, it’s just Western rationalism at its finest where the due process trumps the substance.
Why don’t these fools just go join the military, they’ve been killing tens of thousands of Muslims
This is a truly bad precedent as we contemplate trying who knows how many muslims in our federal court system.
Let me get this straight, Christians are upset because they don’t get to execute somebody? What woud Jesus say?
Uh, the difference is this: A Christian would have taken much more time than a Muslim to establish guilt, and then carry out the execution.
A Muslim automatically views Christians as guilty, and has no time for due process.
Good. The state shouldn’t be killing anyone.
87. He’d say that nations were given the power of the sword to do justice. He’ll spare the soul of a murderer who begs His forgiveness, but those who boast of their murders have no defense. Unbelievers (and some Christians) have it in their heads that Jesus was anti-death penalty, when the truth is that Jesus invented the death penalty, establishing it as the punishment for murder and commanding that it be carried out by men. Those who point to the woman caught in adultery conveniently forget that Jesus wrote the Law that was being used to condemn her in the first place! Notice, Jesus did not allow a convicted criminal to go free; He got a woman acquitted by convincing her accusers that they really didn’t want to be accusing her, lest the procedure required to convict her reveal their own sins. Without two witnesses left to accuse her, the woman could not be convicted.
here is some light reading.
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1288/Avallone-Flirting-with-Afghanistan-4.aspx
“How will it look for Christians to execute a Muslim?” Who the fuck cares how it would look since it would not be a “Christian” executing a Muslim, but a member of our law enforcement community.
Unfortunately for muslims…I don’t believe they have the best interests of America at heart. Thusly…I believe all of them must be excluded from military service, government and above all…our national security interests. We must punish them all…until the so called level headed “moderates” get the message…and turn on their evil, murdering “brothers”.
Muslims…by their creed and their political ideology ( not that much different than hitler’s is it? Kill…kill…kill! ) should not be excused from their barbarity. Justice and the law demands it.
Get ready America….for the war against this screaming, juvenile cult is coming to our streets. Who’s it gonna be?
The “murder” of Noor al-Maleki should in NO way be considered a religious “anything”!
I don’t care if her father is the king of the universe, he committed premeditated murder, period!
Kill the bastard.
You follow the law of the land you live in or leave. If he goes to prison…make it solitary confiment. No contact with the @$$#0le groups of muslims in prison.
82…you could be right….:(
What is this country coming to. Hows this Hope and MUSLIM CHANGE working? Some day in the near future , people like SKEEZITS will wake up to this Muslim loving PRESIDENT, and wonder how they fell for this HOPE and CHANGE.
87 Skeeziks. Try again. People, not necessarily Christians, just not Muslim, are upset because the law is being applied unequally. Straight now?
Honor killers need to know they will be put down and their entire extended families deported, since they’ve proven by their actions that they intend to follow Sharia regardless of and inspite of the laws of our country.
They prove themselves to be political subversives and should be dealt with accordingly.
The Saudi’s would do no less to us.
And no, we’re not changing our laws to accommodate them. If this makes it more difficult for them to proceed with their project for worldwide Sharia, so be it.
Do we have two justice systems here. Could one be Sharia and the other for the infidels? This is how Europe started its downward decline into its current abyss.
Perhaps Mr. Little is unaware that Christians in the U.S. Armed Forces kill Muslims almost every day in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq.
103. Here we’re talking about a huge Problem mainly related to the Islamic World, which is Submission, Enslavement, Mistreatement and brutally Murder of – mainly – young Islamic Girls and Women. There are Victims among Males dating Islamic Girls/Women, too.
And we’re talking about US Soil and Immigration, and Law and its Enforcement – what do US have to do, wellcoming the above mentioned huge Problem and accepting it as “Cultural Peculiarity” or rejecting it as “Untolerable”?
About your mentioned subject, I would like to remeber you that in Afghanistan and Pakistan Girls and Women get harshly treated on regular/daily Basis, while in Iraq Chaldeans got killed by “peaceful” Islamists.
When it comes to Islam, Islamic/-ist people do not make any Difference between Mosque and State, while for so calles “Christians” or – in this Case – Americans, Church and State are two different Institution.
State means Policy and – in Case of America – includes Democracy, which is Multipartitism, that represent different Souls (Thoughts, Ideas, Sensitivities).
There is a huge Difference between private Honor/Horror Killings and public Wars (there was and still is – fortunately or not – plenty the World of them).
You might thank Soldiers for allowing you to live in a safer Country and you might damn Horror Killers to turn your Country into a brutal Place.
103. Though Civil Victims are a Shame – no Matter which War it is, or which Regime it is (by the Way, Islam spread by Sword, from Muhammad himself on).
We should cease wasting our time, and further endangering our country, our Constitution and our civilization by pretending that these atrocities are not directly traceable to Islam’s teachings and jurisprudence. They are NOT ‘tribal practices’ or ‘customs’: This IS Sharia Law: ‘honor killing’ is murder sanctioned by the Koran and supported by the Umdat al Salik, manual of Islamic jurisprudence. A Moslem parent or grandparent is not regarded as guilty of murder if he/she kills a child/grandchild who is deemed unislamic. To engage in unislamic activity or make statements not in accordance with Islam’s teachings is to commit apostasy and this is the gravest of ‘sins’ in Islam because it is seen as ‘war’ against ‘allah’ and its ‘prophet’ Mahomet. Umdat al-Salik, p595-6: “Leaving Islam is the ugliest form of unbelief (kuf) and the worst…When the person who has reached puberty and is sane voluntarily apostasizes from Islam, he deserves to be killed. In such a case, it is obligatory…to ask him to repent and return to Islam. If he does, it is accepted from him, but if he refuses, he is immediately killed.” This mandate is not contingent on any legal ruling in any Islamic court or by any official of a Moslem state. It is understood that any Moslem may kill such a presumed apostate. (Koran 18:74, 80-81; apostasy and death sentence: Koran 2:217 and 4:89. All five schools of Sharia uphold this mandate (Hanafi, Shafi’i, Maliki, Hanbali, Ja’fari): Death for a sane adult male. Death for a sane adult female (except for Hanafi: she is imprisoned until she repents and for the Ja’fari she is imprisoned and beaten until she repents or dies). Death for a sane child (usually imprisoned until reaching puberty, then killed; except for Ja’fari for whom apostasy does not apply to children).
Sharia Law also states that a Moslem is not to be regarded as guilty of murder if he/she kills a kufr (non-Moslem, unbeliever) (Bukhari Vol 1, Bk 3, No 111: “Narrated Ash-Sha’bi, And the law that no Muslim should be killed in Qisas (equality in punishment) for the killing of (a disbeliever).”
Also Sharia Law states that, because the Moslem is superior to the non-Moslem, no non-Moslem may sit in judgement on a Moslem. In regard to the particular case stated in this thread, the Prosecutor is actually attempting to assert Sharia Law but is doing so by using political correctness. It might be useful to investigate the Prosecutor to see if this person is either a convert to Islam or has received a bribe from Moslems. It is naive to assume this is simply done out of ignorance or slavish adherence to PC.
Islam and Sharia Law have no place in civilized societies or countries. Islam should be reclassified as a seditious, inherently violent, intolerant, degrading political ideology and proscribed; all immigration of Moslems into Western countries should cease and Moslems presently in the West either deported or resolutions passed that any attempt to institute or practice Sharia will result in immediate loss of citizenship and/or legal/social privileges of any Moslem. Our laws, our values, our nation are not under any obligation to accede to these injustices but if we continue to allow Moslem numbers to grow, we will eventually find they will have sufficient numbers to enact legislation to support Sharia which is why all actions to prevent Islam’s domination or influence in our country (ies) MUST involved restriction of their numbers.
“The death penalty is not a deterrent”. Bull.
1. The death penalty has been an effective deterrent for thousands of years, when executed properly. Gen 9:6 Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. Alma 42:19 Now, if there was no law given—if a man murdered he should die—would he be afraid he would die if he should murder? (Both Moses & Alma predate Mohammed by centuries.)
What we have in the U.S. is capital punishment for dummies – wait for a lifetime, then die in your sleep painlessly by injection. Other countries get it right – swift trial, limited appeals (both in number and time duration), then swift execution of justice.
2. Deterrence is a secondary function of capital punishment. Justice is the first, which is why capital punishment is reserved for heinous crimes (murder, sedition, treason, etc.) where the act causes irreparable damage to society and/or intentional loss of innocent life. The victims of such crimes deserve justice, as do their families.
As a society we’ve diluted justice to the point that we’re more concerned about rehabilitating callous wanton murderous demons than we are about protecting the innocent. Very scary.
I don’t know if death penalty is a deterrent but it is certainly very good at preventing reincidency. I am sick about those liberals who don’t object about serial killers (ie people with a probability of reincidency close to 100%) walking away free after X years like in some countries of Europe where there is neither death penalty nor life sentences. Too bad for victims.
I have never heard of anything so crazy. Our system of justice has passed judgement on all kinds of religious nuts in its past. Now someone says our system can not past judgement because they are Muslim. This should not be allowed to stand. This type of evil that says a father can kill his daughter or wife because he wants to, must stop here. The Brits are allowing this evil to change their morals and laws, we cannot allow it to change us. This is wrong and this type of murder should face the full measure of law. Let him go to his virgins and no other daughter of his will fear he will get out.
SusieQ @ 9. “All religions have blood on their hands from murdering other humans” .
Let me rephrase “No founder of religions has blood on his hands from murdering other humans, except one”
Billy Little is practicing Sharia in Az?
Is there an interview where Billy or the judge has been interviewed and explained why Faleh is different than anyone else living in America?
If we are to judge Muslims differently, they need to leave this country.
To Kinvara, #106: I concur, 100%.
Moreover, the equal protection clause demands that this criminal be treated no differently than any other murderer. Lady Justice wears a blindfold, does she not?
When a “guest” people whose so-called religious law grants them carte-blanche to commit the murder of “infidels” with impunity while at the same time it forbids the host people to follow their own law and enact justice (capital punishment) for said crimes, then we have a problem.
Muslim immigration must end, or at some point we’ll reach CRITICAL MASS and lose our country. WAKE UP PEOPLE.
How did the question of religion come up in the first place. I’ve been on jury duty before, even an attempted murder trial. I don’t remember any questions being raised about anyone’s religion. The question just never came up. So why has religion been interjected into this trial? It’s simply a question of did he commit the crime or didn’t he. The only time it could or should have been brought in, is if he were to try an insanity defense. He could claim that Islam is, and makes you, crazy.
I think he needs to REAd his BIBLE if he has one. You will find the Bible says not to let the Sun go down on a murderer
From where I stand looking, how it looks to me if Christians execute or otherwise kill a muslim, is it looks just fine.
WHY did Laura Reckart change her mind about the death penalty? Has anyone asked her? Who helped her change her mind and why???
Will Little do anything to save his clients? Even sell our legal system down the river??
Reckart, Little and the judge seem to have done exactly that.
What the hell happened in that court???? Is it going on elsewhere?
The UK would never extradite anyone who would be up against the death penalty. The US Gov had to take the death penalty off the table before he could be extradited. Little knew that and now so do the prosecutors. There’s plenty of Islamic scum living off the dole in the UK because of this so called Human Rights issue concerning the death penalty. It’s par for the course.
A responder said that the “death penalty does not stop criminals”. Have you ever seen a dead person commit a crime?????????
I think the Prosecutor in this case should be removed ASAP…….
Billie Little just played the “OJ Card”, i.e, the “race card.”
THe object is to deflect from the crime and its victim by making the defendant an “untouchable” re the death penalty. This creation of a “protected criminal class” has long been the goal of the marxist legal world (i.e., the old CPUSA legal front, the National Lawyers Guild, and its split-off marxist melange, the Center for Constitutional Rights), as well as the left/liberal ACLU.
They blame society, the moon, poverty, or Islamophobia, but as we see in this case, never “Islam” nor the fact that it was just plain outright “murder” regardless of the root causes, i.e. honor killings, Islamic law/Sharia law, etc.
It’s a sort of “West Side Story” meets Islam, as in “I’m depraved because I’m deprived but you shouldn’t execute me because I’m a Moslem and you’re mean old Christians on a crusade.”
Let’s fire the prosecutor and get a two-fer on the death sentence, the guilty murderer and his slimey attorney. In fact, that would be the perfect Trifecta, and justice would be served for the poor victim and for society.
PS: Phyllis: It is irrelevant whether race was a factor in imposing the death penalty. What is the most important is whether the person convicted actually did the killing and deserved death. I’m for executing all cold-blooded killers, mass murderers, child killers, jihadists, lone-wolf nuts, and even stalker-killers (calling OJ).
The OJ trial and Johnny Chocoran set our judicial system back 50 years, and a poor prosecution didn’t help either. What we have in this case is a repetition of “OJ” except that the guy will be found guilty.’
The only question is “whether the penalty fits the crime.” In my world, it does.
PSS: OJ is in jail because he’s a wild man, not because he’s black, just in case you haven’t noticed.
Islamists over and over again thumb their noses at us in the west. Yet the restrictions put on us when we go on Muslim soil are extreme. Recently I went to Israel. I went up to the temple mount. My wife was wearing jeans and a t-shirt, but they made her put on this ugly big smock. None of us were allowed to bring our Bible up there. It’s controlled by Muslims. This is so called Muslim tolerance? Try seeing what happens to Christians and Jews in Saudi Arabia or Iran. So we timidly cower at the thought of seeming intolerant to the religion of thugery? The inferiority of Christians and Jews is a part of their religious dogma. It is in the Koran itself. Why do we care what these bigots think? Do we not know that there really is a war of civilizations going on and we’re cowering into defeat? Islam is a brutal, abusive and despotic religio-political system. It should be called out for what it really is. That monster that killed his own daughter should be executed. We should also call him out for the low life creep that he is. He should be publicly reproved for his so called cultural bias right before we pull the switch.
American christians kill muslims everyday in Iraq and Afghanstan. Muslims kill christians regularly also whats the beef? Our professional politicians authorized this years ago. Ask any high school graduate!
What? Is the United States of America under
Sharia law now?
I thought justice knew no biases.
disgusting that you put the two photo’s side by side… that animal intentionally killed that beautiful woman who was his daughter – and by the way there is another woman critically injured and still recovering as well… i doubt Noor would want her picture next to her killers never mind subserviently to the right
“How would it look if Christians executed a muslim for an honor killing?”
D*mn fine! That’s how! It might look like we care about our country and our culture. It would also show how vastly superior the Judeo- Christian world view is to the Islamic view of the world.
Different laws for different groups of people, different sets of rights for the followers of different religions in the same country — in South Africa that was called apartheid; in twenty-first century America it it is called tolerance and multi-culturalism. In the world of reality it is called it is called insanity and is the certain road to the destruction of Western Civilization.
“I am not a huge fan of the death penalty; it is applied in racially biased ways and innocent people have been executed.”
I’m sorry, Ms. Chesler, but on the first point you’re wrong in the way I believe you intend, and on the second, you’re simply wrong. Despite massive efforts, activists have not yet unearthed any case of an innocent person executed. Not one. And studies on racial bias in the death penalty show that white male murderers are actually slightly more likely to receive death for comparable crimes than minority defendants. Those results, so unanticipated by the activists who set out to prove the opposite, have been retooled with the message that minority victims are less likely to be honored with death for their killers — yet that message utterly ignores the real reason for the disparity: community attitudes towards assigning death.
I agree with you that pleading a special case for certain murderers based on identity or religion is appalling. It privileges that identity over the victim’s identity and her right to life. In Florida last week, we witnessed a similar instance when dozens of Jewish organizations in the U.S. and Israel protested the execution of Martin Grossman, who slaughtered a young female cop two decades ago.
I happen to oppose the death penalty in all cases, but false propaganda accusing the government of taking innocent lives undermines our willingness to enforce any law. And it is terrible to watch any interest group claim that a person’s identity excuses his actions, or is more important than the identity of the person whose life he took. This is the wretched logical outcome of Eric Holder’s hate crimes regime, in which some people are simply more important, or less important, than others.
The public defender is doing his job, defending his client by any & every legal means that he can.
However, do you remember the part of the Pledge of Allegiance that states “Justice for All”? We are a nation of laws. This is the USA with laws that are supposed to be applied evenly to everyone.
If this guy qualifies to be tried in court under death penalty rules for the pre-meditated murder of his own daughter, then so be it! If we were in his native country, they would not care whether you are Christian or Muslim. They will apply the Sharia Law to you withoout regard to how you worship. You come here buster, you play by our rules.
Now, apply the law as it is warranted! If you can’t do the time or pay the penalty, DONT TO THE CRIME!
“I am not a huge fan of the death penalty; it is applied in racially biased ways and innocent people have been executed.”
No, it’s not and name three.
If the Arizona prosecutors aren’t going to seek the death penalty for a brutal crime that could certainly deserve it, then sentence him to a lifetime of hard labor, the equivalent of lifetime slavery, as his due punishment for his evil crime.
Do what you like, when you like, where you like.
Mohammedan card.
Don’t leave home without it!
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The mohammedans just won another one.
They’re smiling … we’re losing.
Does that bother you?
Do something about it!
I dare you
Just in case anybody mistakes me, that dare was not meant for Phyllis, who has done plenty.
She’s up to it.
Are you?
126. Tina Trent: “Despite massive efforts, activists have not yet unearthed any case of an innocent person executed. Not one.”
Considering the number of people whose convictions were overturned after DNA testing, you can just imagine the number unjustly convicted and executed in pre-DNA days. And just a few months ago, The New Yorker ran a compelling piece about a man convicted and executed for killing his family in a fire – unjustly, according to experts who convincingly refuted the forensic evidence used to convict.
“How would it look if Christians executed a muslim for an honor killing?” The question should be, “How will it look if Christians let muslims get away with murder?” Answer: it will look like alot more murders are going to happen.
128. D’oh!:
“No, it’s not and name three.”
This’ll get you started: There’s more.
http://www.justicedenied.org/executed.htm
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/executed-possibly-innocent
Hail Rush. Go Sarah.
Where is the National Organization of Women in this ? Hiding behind Skeezik’s legs ?
I say we just execute him by firing squad—after dipping the bullets in pig’s blood first !!
Lady Justice wears a blindfold for a reason. It is a travesty that anyone would take such blatant idiocy put forth by Billy Little as anything more than the ravings of a madman. If Mr. Little truly believes such things, frankly, he should be disbarred. And if taking the death penalty off the table was only to get Faleh al-Maleki extradited, then Britain must be told, “Too bad, so sad, we lied.”
For Faleh al-Maleki is accused of murdering his daughter in cold blood. As an American, he must stand trial for this crime and if found guilty must face the penalty. Neither culture nor religion are relevant to the facts of the case for he is an American and therefore only the standards of American society, which does not condone honor killings, may apply.