Iraqi Man Executed for 2 Slayings

An Iraqi national who stabbed his wife and her uncle to death in 1992 was executed Thursday.

Sahib Mosawi, 53, was sentenced to death in 1994. He did not request a clemency hearing and had no appeals pending.

He was executed by injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.

He met his wife and her family at a refugee camp in Saudi Arabia after they left Iraq in 1991 during the Persian Gulf War. Their marriage was arranged, and the couple and her family later moved to Oklahoma City.

They had marital problems and Inaam Nashi moved in with her uncle, Mohammad Nashi. She sought a protective order soon after the couple’s son was born because Mosawi threatened her and her family in an argument over the boy’s name.

Two weeks later, on Nov. 28, 1992, he came to Nashi’s home and became angered that his wife was going to a party with friends. Mosawi stabbed the uncle, who was trying to make him leave.

Mosawi then stabbed his wife. Her sister, Fatima, was also stabbed three times but survived.

Mosawi was the 18th prisoner executed in Oklahoma this year. Three more condemned inmates have exhausted all appeals and may be executed before year’s end.