No martyrdom for Zach
A federal jury rejected the death penalty for al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui on Wednesday and decided he must spend life in prison for his role in the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history.
After seven days of deliberation, the nine men and three women rebuffed the government’s appeal for death for the only person charged in this country in the four suicide jetliner hijackings that killed nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001.
I wonder why they did not give the death penalty. Deny martyrdom? Don’t like the death penalty? To avoid any future legal wrangling? Beats me.
Though I’d have no problem taking him out (and my method would involve duct tape and a pork chop), I think it’s for the best not to make a martyr of him.
Update: Rusty says it’s a travesty of justice.
May 3rd, 2006 at 5:13 pm
Moussaoui Gets Life: Travesty of Justice
A jury has sentenced Zacarias Moussaoui to life in prison for his part in the 9/11 conspiracy. News reports just breaking the story. Updates soon. Moussaoui deserved death. This is a travesty of justice. UPDATE: Fuzzy logic alert from…
May 3rd, 2006 at 5:31 pm
I wonder whether he’ll last in the prison system. Would prisoners be sympathetic to a terrorist or would they want to hurt him? It didn’t take long for other orisoners to deal with Jeffery Dahmer. I’m guessing that many in prison may be sociopaths, but they are still American sociopaths, and might not take too kindly to someone like Moussaoui.
May 3rd, 2006 at 6:40 pm
Well hopefully his cell mate bubba will pound him up the A$$ until someone gets the prison cred for sticking a shiv into is kidney or heart…
May 3rd, 2006 at 6:46 pm
BREAKING: "Jury Decides Against Execution for Moussaoui"
From the NYT:A federal court jury spared the life of Zacarias Moussaoui today, voting to send him to prison for the rest of his days rather than condemn him to death for the carnage of Sept. 11, 2001. The jury of nine men and three women deliberated se…
May 3rd, 2006 at 6:52 pm
He’s going supermax, 23 hours a day in solitary and then an hour out, IIRC, alone.
May 3rd, 2006 at 9:10 pm
You know, if he wasnt batshit crazy and hadnt plead guilty at the start, I think they would have had trouble convicting him.
May 3rd, 2006 at 10:28 pm
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May 4th, 2006 at 2:37 am
Oh great, we get to pay for this POS to lay around on his ass watching tv for the next few decades. Hopefully some patriot at camp fed will show him the proper way to use a razor blade and the true meaning of the word terror. Supermax or not, if someone in the pen wants to get him bad enough, they will.
May 4th, 2006 at 12:11 pm
Maybe the jury just declined to assist him in committing suicide…