An Illinois landlord, Joseph Czuba, convicted of murdering six-year-old Palestinian-American Wadea al-Fayoume in a hate crime, died in custody at age 73 after serving less than three months of his 53-year sentence. Czuba targeted the family due to their Islamic faith, inflicting fatal wounds on the boy and injuring his mother, Hanaan Shaheen, during an attack linked to rising anti-Muslim sentiment amid the Israel-Gaza conflict.
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