On April 5, 2002, Mark Stroman, a 32-year-old stonecutter from Dallas, entered Texas’ death row for the murder of Vasudev Patel, an Indian immigrant and gas station owner in Mesquite, TX. Patel was Stroman’s third and final victim. In the three weeks after the September 11th terrorist attacks, Stroman also shot and killed Waqar Hasan, a Pakistani immigrant in Dallas, and partially blinded a gas station attendant from Bangladesh in the erroneous belief all three men were Arabs.

Here’s Stroman, in his own words. And the widow of one of the men he murdered, in hers. Both conversations are from The Execution Chronicles, an on-going documentary project and web site, launched on September 11, 2008 by filmmaker Ilan Ziv and Maryknoll, the Catholic mission organization.

"Some might ask how dare we put the victims and their tormentor on the same page," says Ziv. "I believe you cannot understand the complexities of hate and violence without comprehending whom the participants are and what drives them. While we may not learn the final answers why, searching for them sheds a crucial light on society."