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By Sridhar Krishnaswami
Kasi was convicted of killing two employees of the Central Intelligence Agency and wounding three others in 1993. The execution of Kasi by a dose of lethal injection is set for after 9 p.m. on Thursday night at the Greensville Correctional Centre in Jarratt, Virginia. The convicted Pakistani national has a petition pending before the U.S. Supreme Court and a clemency petition with the Governor of the State, Mark Warner. The petition includes pleas from Kasi's mother and the Pakistani Ambassador to the United States, Ashraf Jehangir Qazi. The Governor has reviewed the clemency petition but a spokesman said that no decision will be made until after the nation's highest court had given its ruling. Kasi, who gunned down the two CIA employees outside the Agency's headquarters in McLean, Virginia, in January 1993 has said that he had no regrets. At the same time in an interview last week he hoped that his planned execution today would not bring about retaliatory attacks. Kasi condemned attacks that killed civilians but justified his act as it targeted government agents. Local and State law enforcement officials in Virginia are on a heightened state of alert. "We will be out in full force," a local law enforcement official said.
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