Judge: "Honor killing? Nah, just a parent killing a child."

In 2009 an Iraqi immigrant living in a suburb of Phoenix used his car to run down his 20-year-old daughter and a friend in a parking lot.

The daughter died in the hospital a month later. The friend survived.

The father fled to the U.K. where he was captured and extradited back to the U.S. and charged with murder.

In February of this year he was found guilty of second-degree murder--in other words, the jury found that the murder was not premeditated. He was sentenced to 34 years in jail.

And now the kicker:

Maricopa County Judge Roland Steinle [said] it was wrong to call the crime an honor killing. “I think it sensationalizes what is nothing more than a parent killing a child,” Steinle said.

Roll that around for a bit:

It would be wrong to think of this as an "honor killing" because that would "sensationalize" what is "nothing more than a parent killing a child.”

Nothing more than that, citizen. Just your everyday, garden-variety parent killing one of his kids.

Speechless.