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Moussaoui Jury Begins Deliberations | 4 comments (4 topical)
Re: Moussaoui Jury Begins Deliberations (none / 0) (#3)
by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Apr 24, 2006 at 03:31:53 PM EST
"Please sentence my client to life in prison so that he with suffer a long, lingering death." LOL! That's gotta be the strangest argument I've heard.
How do you punish a man who worships death and matyrism? Who wants to glorify himself before his god?
"give him not the death of a jihadist ... but the long slow death of a common criminal."
The punishment should fit the crime, aye? And for such an egregious, overwhelming crime, we want the punishment to be similarly heavy-handed. This isn't about "sparing" a terrorist in the vain hope that it will reduce terrorism, so don't even raise that straw man. This is about locking a man in his own personal hell: A nameless, faceless criminal, no more feared or talked about in his waning years than the convenience store killer the next cell over. He sought uniqueness; we shall give him anonymity.

Moussaoui Jury Begins Deliberations | 4 comments (4 topical)

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