{"id":634568,"date":"2026-05-10T10:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/634568\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T10:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:44:08","slug":"bangladeshi-usf-students-may-receive-death-penalty-if-convicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/634568\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladeshi USF students may receive death penalty if convicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida prosecutors are moving to execute the man accused of killing two doctoral students after allegedly asking <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/27\/us-news\/ex-usf-student-hisham-abugharbieh-accused-of-murdering-roommate-pals-girlfriend-asked-chatgpt-about-putting-person-in-dumpster-court-docs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ChatGPT for tips<\/a> on how to ditch the bodies.<\/p>\n<p>The Hillsborough State Attorney\u2019s Office filed notice Friday to seek the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/missing-grad-student-florida-death-penalty-5aa7458553fc7f1dbf013bbd49523739\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">death penalty against Hisham Saleh Abugharbieh<\/a>, 26, just 24 hours after a grand jury indicted him for the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/27\/us-news\/missing-slain-usf-students-families-demand-highest-possible-punishment-for-alleged-killer-roommate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">double murder of Zamil Limon and Nahida Bristy<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>He faces two counts of first-degree murder and a slew of other charges.<\/p>\n<p>The victims, both 27-year-old University of South Florida students from Bangladesh, vanished on April 16. <\/p>\n<p>Hisham Abugharbieh is accused of killing two doctoral students after allegedly asking ChatGPT for tips on how to ditch the bodies. AP<\/p>\n<p>The investigation took a chilling turn when detectives discovered Abugharbieh \u2014 Limon\u2019s roommate \u2014 allegedly turned to ChatGPT for advice on how to dispose of a body. He was arrested about a week later and has been in custody since.<\/p>\n<p>Limon frequently complained about Abugharbieh, once telling his deceased girlfriend that he was \u201cpsychopathic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nahida Bristy had vanished on April 16.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/27\/us-news\/body-recovered-in-waterway-near-bridge-where-remains-of-missing-usf-student-was-found\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detectives pinpointed Limon\u2019s body<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/27\/us-news\/body-recovered-in-waterway-near-bridge-where-remains-of-missing-usf-student-was-found\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> <\/a>to a bridge using cellphone location and license plate reader data on April 24. <\/p>\n<p>The body had multiple stab wounds and appeared to be bound. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/01\/us-news\/remains-of-second-missing-usf-grad-student-found-by-fisherman-cops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bristy\u2019s body was recovered<\/a> in a Tampa waterway on April 26.<\/p>\n<p>Search warrants revealed blood residue trailing from the kitchen to Abugharbieh\u2019s bedroom, where the carpet was soaked in blood. <\/p>\n<p>Zamil Limon\u2019s body had multiple stab wounds and appeared to be bound.<\/p>\n<p>Police recovered Limon\u2019s wallet and blood-stained clothes from the apartment\u2019s trash compactor compactor.<\/p>\n<p>Abugharbieh\u2019s mother, Haya Abugharbieh, told prosecutors that he had anger management issues and was violent with family members in the past. <\/p>\n<p>Abugharbieh\u2019s arraignment has been scheduled for May 18.<\/p>\n<p>With Post wires<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida prosecutors are moving to execute the man accused of killing two doctoral students after allegedly asking ChatGPT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,18819,694,38137,3,14488,21,19,22,20,25,194,24],"class_list":["post-634568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-bangladesh","tag-homicide","tag-murders","tag-news","tag-students","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}