Glendale man sentenced to 34 ½ years in 'honor killing' case

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: azcentral

Judge Roland Steinle sentenced Faleh Hassan Al-Maleki, 50, the Glendale man who ran down his 20-year-old daughter in Peoria in 2009, to 34 ½ years in prison Friday afternoon.

He will serve 16 years for the death of his daughter, Noor Al-Maleki. He will serve 15 years for the aggravated assault of Amal Khalaf, a family friend who was with Noor. He will serve those consecutively.

The judge sentenced him to a concurrent sentence of 3 ½ years for leaving the scene of the accident.



Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/community/glendale/articles/2011/04/15/20110415glendale-honor-killing-case-sentencing.html

[FiveGoodMen]

1. Good.

Fuck him.

[orangeapple]

5. I'm reminded of General Sir Charles James Napier

A story for which Napier was noted involved a delegation of Hindu locals approaching him and complaining about prohibition of Sati, often referred to at the time as suttee, by British authorities. This was the custom of burning a widow alive on the funeral pyre of her husband. The exact wording of his response varies somewhat in different reports, but the following version captures its essence:

"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."

[rasputin1952]

2. This "man" is little more than a monster...

in every nation I have visitied, I have always tried to live by that nation's laws...the same thing goes for here. 34.5 years...if he gets out, he'll be 85.5...and still have to live the with the thought that he killed his daughter...there is no "honor" in that...he's got a lot of time to figure that out.

[MasonJar]

3. That's all he got! Where is there honor in killing your olwn daughter?

I hope he never gets out.

[shireen]

4. +1

he deserves a life term!

[WatsonT]

11. With any luck he'll be "honor killed"

in prison by some felon with a daughter.

/yes that is vigilante justice. Yes it is wrong. But I would lose no sleep if I heard that it had happened.

[iandhr]

6. he killed his own daughter

bastard should have gotten life without parole.

[pettypace]

13. Had he killed someone else's daughter

Then life/death penalty would have been the result.

He gave her life and took it. The degrees are striking.

[lunatica]

7. Good

[slackmaster]

8. He gets a Darwin Award too

Idiot.

[Honeycombe8]

9. Why not "life"? Too often, I read of men who have killed women,

and who get far less than a life sentence for it.

Just why IS that?

[WatsonT]

10. Why not life, no possibility of parole?

[bermudat]

12. He should have gotten life without parole.

At least some justice was meted out.

[Trajan]

14. So ... Arizona is easy on criminals ...

It's civil rights they hate so much ...

[chrisa]

15. Just running over another piece of property, right?

Apparently crocodile tears can get you out of a life sentence. If you come to America, leave your backwards-ass cultures behind and join the 21st century.

[east texas lib]

16. Rather light sentence, IMHO...

Pathetic. As is the lackadaisical response by our society to the ever increasing rate of atrocities like this. When someone chooses to leave their country of origin and start a new life in another country (such as the U.S. or Canada) does the right to preserve one's cultural mores (even if those mores include the patriarchal concept of females as chattel) trump the right to exist as equals in the new home country?

[No Elephants]

17. WTF?

"Later, when Steinle spoke, he said the sentencing was one of the most difficult in his six years as a judge."

Why? Should have been one of his easiest.


"Noor would have pleaded for compassion for her father, Steinle said, which is why he sentenced Al-Maleki to 16 years for her murder rather than the maximum 22 years."

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/community/glendale/articles/2011/04/15/20110415glendale-honor-killing-case-sentencing.html#ixzz1JtHaBmY0


WTF? He knows what a dead woman he never met would do about her own murder, if she hadn't been murdered? WTF?

No, really, WTF?

[No Elephants]

18. Why on earth was this SECOND degree murder?