On Thursday the Dallas County court sentenced the dad who drowned his sons, Naim Rasool Muhammad to death for the murdering his 5 and 3-year-old boys.
NBC News says the jury took less than a week to find the dad who drowned his sons guilty of murder. The jury made the decision to sentence him to death in only 10-minutes.
In August 2011 Muhammad forced the boys and their mother into the car and started driving. The mother was able to jump out of the car and alert a local constable who called the police. The police issued a manhunt but it was too late for the boys, Yahoo News reports.
The dad who drowned his sons took the boys to a local Dallas creek and told them to get in the water and play. Muhammad then held his sons' heads underwater until they died.
UPI.com reports via the Dallas Morning News that Muhammad drowned his sons because he wanted to be a good father and felt that opportunity was being taken away.
"I apologize for bringing any pain and hurt on anybody for the actions that I have caused to you all," Muhammad said when he addressed the court after hearing the sentence.
The execution process in Texas and the rest of the US consists of a mandatory appeals process in which the state could reverse the jury's decision and not execute the prisoner. If the appeals are denied then an execution date is set, usually sometime between 1-6-months from the final appeal.
Once the date is set defense attorneys go through another set of appeals and if they are denied the prisoner is executed, in Texas this is usually done with a lethal injection.
In the state of Arizona, where high profile defendant Jodi Arias is waiting to learn if she will be sentenced to death, a prisoner on death row sentenced before November, 1992 has the choice between lethal injection and the gas chamber.
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