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| By: Associated Press |
| Published: September 14, 2006 |
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The last of five women who were wounded in a deadly shooting spree at the Jewish Federation office is out of the hospital, and she and another victim say a man charged should not face the death penalty.
"Killing him would be a shame," Layla Bush, 23, the youngest of the victims, said Tuesday as she prepared for her release from Harborview Medical Center. "I think it would be too easy for him."
Bush and Carol Goldman, 35, who was discharged from the hospital Aug. 4, said Naveed Afzal Haq, 30, should instead face life in prison without parole if he is convicted of aggravated murder and eight other charges in the July 28 attack.
"I keep thinking death would be too easy for him," Goldman said.
Haq, a Muslim, told authorities he was angered by the war in Iraq and U.S. military cooperation with Israel when he allegedly forced his way into the center and opened fire with two semiautomatic pistols.
Five women were wounded and one, Pamela Waechter, 58, the federation's director of annual giving, was killed.
Prosecutor Norm Maleng has until Nov. 17 to decide whether to seek the death penalty. |
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