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Last Saturday, several members of the Indian-American community attended a rally at Haggard Park in Plano, Texas, to peacefully protest against recent incidents in which three Indian American women became targets of racist threats in the city.  In Texas we wanted to make loud and clear that hate has no home. At the event the Plano Police Department was present and it was very clear that justice would be served. Including Hispanic leaders who made it clear that racist women never represent the views of Latinos, there was a diverse lineup of speakers. In times of uncertainty our diverse speakers comforted us.    Against the hate they stood up in solidarity,” Chanda Parbu, founder and executive director of South Asian American Voter Empowerment in Texas, the group that organized the protest, told The Times of India. rice field. Besides her, other speakers at the gathering included a rabbi Nancy Kasten, a Chief Relations Officer for Faith Commons, a multifaith organizati...

Texas put to death a man who fatally stabbed a suburban Dallas real estate agent more than 16 years ago on Wednesday, the second execution this year in what has been the nation’s busiest death penalty state. 41 years old, Kosoul Chanthakoummane, received a lethal injection at the state prison in Huntsville and was pronounced dead at 6:33 pm. In July 2006 he was convicted of fatally stabbing and shooting 40-year-old Sarah Walker. More than 30 times in a model home in McKinney she was found stabbed about 30 miles north of Dallas. Chanthakoummane, after being strapped to the death chamber gurney, made a short statement thanking Jesus Christ, Texas prison officials and all the people in his life who helped me on this journey. He offered a message to them: “I pray my death brings them peace”, although none of Walker’s relatives attended the execution. Through his IV lines into his veins the powerful sedative pentobarbital started to flow. He looked at a window through where his mother was q...