Mir Aimal Kasi, who murdered two employees of the Central Intelligence Agency outside the agency's headquarters five years ago, was sentenced Friday to die.
"I don't expect any justice or mercy from your country or this court," the 33-year-old Kasi told Judge J. Howe Brown of Fairfax County Circuit Court, in the capital's Virginia suburbs, just before sentencing.Kasi, a Pakistani immigrant, walked into slow-moving rush-hour traffic on the morning of Jan. 25, 1993, and randomly fired an assault rifle at drivers waiting to turn into the main entrance of CIA headquarters, in Langley. The gun-fire killed a CIA communications worker, Frank Darling, 28, and an analyst for the agency, Lansing Bennett, 66, and wounded three others.
After a manhunt that lasted four and a half years, Kasi was captured in Pakistan by agents of the FBI last June.
Kasi was tried in a Virginia court and charged with murder, rather than in a federal court, because at the time of the attack federal law did not provide a death penalty for acts of terrorism. The jury that convicted him in November recommended execution. On Friday Brown complied.
Hours after the conviction last fall, four Americans and their Pakistani driver were shot to death in Karachi.