Texas Man Set For Execution For Killing Indian In Spree Of 'Patriotic' Attacks After 9/11

LONDON: A man in Texas will face execution for killing an Indian man in a string of hate crimes in the wake of the September 11 attacks.

Mark Anthony Stroman said the spree, in which he also shot dead a Pakistani man and severely wounded a Bangladeshi man, was fuelled by 'patriotism'.

Stroman said his sister was in the top floors of the World Trade Center's North tower when it collapsed after being hit by an airplane, although this claim has never been substantiated.

He said that he believed the US government 'hadn't done their job after 9/11, so he was going to do it for them'.

Stroman began plotting what he believed were 'revenge attacks' in the days after September 11, the Daily Mail reports.

On September 15, he shot Waqar Hasan, a 46-year-old Pakistani man, in the head while he was grilling hamburgers in a convenience store in Dallas. He had only recently moved to the area to start a new life with his family.

Six days later, he shot Raisuddin Bhuiyan, in the face while he worked at a gas station. The Bangladeshi man survived but was blinded in one eye.

Then, on October 4, he attempted to rob a gas station run by an Indian Vasudev Patel.

But, his only surviving victim, Bhuiyan, is suing the governor, Rick Perry, in an effort to save the life of the man who tried to take his.

"Please do the right thing, save a human life, please," said Bhuiyan.

"Please, listen to my request and lower Mark's punishment from death to life in prison,' he said," he said.

Stroman, who is being held at the Polunsky Correctional Unit in Livingston, has a criminal history of burglary, armed robbery and theft.

He will be killed by lethal injection on July 20, 2011.

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