Didn't This Man See Mississippi Masala?

This is the follow-up to this madness I posted on earlier this month. This man was found guilty of having his daughter-in-law murdered.

A Mississippi businessman born in India was found guilty Thursday on charges that he arranged to have a hitman murder his African-American daughter-in-law.

A Fulton County jury returned the verdict a day after closing arguments in the trial of 68-year-old Chiman Rai.

Sparkle Rai was killed in her Fulton County apartment in 2000, a month after marrying Rai's son.

Prosecutors contended that Rai had the daughter-in-law, Sparkle Rai, killed because he was a racist and believed an interracial marriage would embarrass his family in caste-conscious Indian society.

Prosecutors planned to seek the death penalty if Rai was convicted. The trial now goes into a sentencing phase.

Sparkle Rai was killed April 26, 2000, in a Fulton County apartment a month after marrying Rai's son. The case baffled police for years until two years ago and authorities arrested Chiman Rai and four other men, including the alleged hit man, a Rai business associate and a retired Jackson, Miss., businessman.

So now this man is going to get life or the death penalty over a "bad" marriage? I cannot fathom how all of this was worth it. Like it or not, he has a grandchild. His son has moved on in the "right kind" of marriage but how must he feel knowing his dad did this? How must his new wife feel knowing that her husband's family is capable of such a heinous act? I know this kind of thing may be fairly commonplace over there but it's just not going to fly here. How will this old man fare in prison in Mississippi with a whole bunch of folks who are black and know he had a black woman killed because he thought his son was too good for her? Other cultures have a right to their traditions but not when they break the law and not when people end up maimed or killed. I almost feel bad for him because he could have probably gotten away with this in India - and almost did here.