Man Sentenced to Death for Killing Sikh

AP via Yahooooo! ^ | 10/9/2003 | AP

[jjm2111]

MESA, Ariz. - A man was sentenced to death Thursday for killing an Indian immigrant during a shooting rampage four days after the Sept. 11 attacks. Frank Silva Roque was convicted of murder last week in the death of gas station owner Balbir Singh Sodhi. Prosecutors said Roque targeted Sodhi because he thought he was an Arab. Sodhi wore a turban and beard as part of his Sikh faith.

After Sodhi's shooting, Roque shot at another gas station where the clerk was a man of Lebanese descent, and shot at the home of an Afghan family, authorities said. They were not injured. Defense attorneys argued that Roque suffered from a mental illness and that the terrorist attacks triggered an episode of insanity.

[jjm2111]

Whoops.

Also, can someone please post the pic for the HTML challenged?

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[LibWhacker]

Good. He deserved it. Too bad gov't can't act with equal dispatch in the Zacarias Moussawi case.

[Catspaw]

Balbir Singh Sodhi, left, and Frank Roque

[petuniasevan]

Here's the perp.

Either this idiot is insane or he's getting what he deserves.

[dennisw]

Earth to Frank Roque .......... Those guys in America with the turbines on their heads are most likely Sikhs!

[open mind-closed fist]

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Awww, say it ain't so. Sipowitz fell off the wagon again?

[richmwill]

Have fun in jail- what part of "Thou Shalt Not Kill" did you NOT understand?

Rich

[Akira]

Who deserved it?

[LibWhacker]

Roque.

[Akira]

Thank you.

I'm a FReeper in a bad mood, I should probably log off now. ;-)

[LibWhacker]

Lol, that's cool. My fault for not being perfectly clear!

[Catspaw]

I remember when Roque murdered this poor man and just being enraged at Roque's stupidity.

[Poohbah]

Those guys in America with the turbines on their heads are most likely Sikhs!

No, they're jet-engine mechanics.

[Revolting cat!]

Those guys in America with the turbines on their heads are most likely Sikhs!

In my town they're cab drivers with Ph.D's!

[ridesthemiles]

Geeze- I thought that was Sipowitz for a second. Did this guy do stand-in / double work for Dennis Franz? Uncanny look-alike!

[bwteim]

LOL

[stephydan]

I HOPE ROQUE ROTS IN HELL!

How ironic, he'll be in hell with he 911 hijackers!

[Poohbah]

And saying "Ah, s**t, THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD!"

[NewRomeTacitus]

I thought it was Gene Okerland caught in a hangover.