Nearly slain by a racist killer in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Rais Bhuiyan is now hoping to prevent the man’s execution on Texas’ death row. On Wednesday, he even asked for the German government for help.
Rais Bhuiyan long ago forgave Mark Ströman, the man who in 11 years ago nearly shot him dead at a petrol station in Dallas, Texas.
But the 37-year-old had a message for Germany while visiting Berlin this week: Don’t let Ströman die.
On July 20, Ströman is scheduled to be executed by the state of Texas for killing an Indian man during a robbery a few weeks after Bhuiyan was shot in September 2001.
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