Joseph Czuba had been sentenced to 53 years in prison for the hate-crime murder of Palestinian American boy Wadee Al Fayoumi and stabbing of his mother, Hanan Shaheen in Plainfield in October 2023.

Joseph Czuba, 73, was serving a 53-year sentence for a 2023 hate crime that shocked the nation in the days after the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel.