![]() "The justice system of the United States and the State of Virginia performed and have been heard. He fired 11 bullets into five cars.ĭarling's father-in-law, Richard Becker, whose daughter was in the car when her husband was murdered, issued a statement on behalf of his family. Three other people, two with the CIA and a telephone company employee, were wounded in Kasi's rampage. He was sentenced to die for the killings of CIA employees Frank Darling, 28, and Lansing Bennett, 66. Mark Warner denied a clemency request from Kasi's stepmother and the Pakistani embassy. ![]() Supreme Court turned down Kasi's latest appeal Thursday. "His action was a reaction to what was happening to Muslims in Chechnya and Palestine." "Aimal is not a terrorist," tribal elder Ibrahim Kansi told demonstrators. Protesters in Pakistan said Kasi's actions were understandable. government for bombing Iraq, for what he saw as its involvement in the killing of Palestinians and because the CIA was too deeply involved in the internal affairs of Muslim countries. Four Americans were killed in Pakistan after Kasi's 1997 conviction, and threats were made in Pakistan in recent days to harm Americans if Kasi was executed.īut Kasi, who was not believed to have had any links with terrorist organizations, let it be known through his lawyers that he "does not want anybody hurt in his name or as a result of his execution."Īs a precaution, however, the Virginia State Police said heightened security was provided at the prison and at the state capitol in Richmond.Īn FBI agent testified that Kasi confessed he wanted to punish the U.S. State Department last week issued a warning to Americans abroad. ![]() He flew to Pakistan the next day but was arrested in 1997, convicted and sentenced to die. Two people were killed and three wounded before he got back into his truck and left the scene unhindered. His last words were, "There is no God but Allah," said Traylor. The two men appeared to be praying quietly but continuously until Kasi's death. Miah Muhammed Saeed, president of the Islamic Center in northern Virginia, accompanied him into the death chamber. Kasi looked sad as he entered the death chamber, witnesses said. EST (0207 GMT) at the Greensville Correctional Center in southeast Virginia, said Larry Traylor, spokesman for the Virginia Department of Corrections. Kasi, 38, was pronounced dead at 9:07 p.m. JARRATT, Virginia (Reuters) - Mir Aimal Kasi, a Pakistani who killed two CIA employees in 1993 in a rage over American policy in the Middle East, was executed by lethal injection on Thursday, in a case that sparked protests in his homeland and fears of retaliation against U.S. ![]() "Pakistani Executed for CIA Shootings," by Frank Green. He flew to Pakistan the next day but was arrested 4 years later, convicted and sentenced to die.įried rice, bananas, boiled eggs and wheat bread. Three other people, Nicholas Starr, Calvin Morgan, and Stephen Williams, two who worked with the CIA and a telephone company employee, were wounded in Kasi's rampage. CIA employees Frank Darling, 28, and Lansing Bennett, 66 died. On January 25, 1993, Kasi, also known in Pakistan as Kansi, parked his pickup truck near CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, during the morning rush hour, picked up an AK-47 and began methodically shooting into cars at a stoplight. since 1976Ĥth murderer executed in Virginia in 2002Ĩ7th murderer executed in Virginia since 1976 Executed Novemby Lethal Injection in VirginiaĨ07th murderer executed in U.S.
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