Posted on 04/14/2006 5:36:32 PM PDT by EveningStar
...Why is it so important to the prosecution to go to such lengths to prove that Moussaoui deserves to be executed? Damage is done by this undertaking, because if the government fails, then the aroma of the trial will waft toward an ambiguity concerning the entire business. If Moussaoui "prevails" in the Virginia trial — if execution is not ordered by the jury — loose-minded analysts will arrive at the conclusion that he was finally not guilty of atrocious deeds, although he has admitted that he'd happily have been a member of the suicide team if he hadn't been detained by the FBI.
And then adding to the confusion, the public is slowly alerted to the generic question of capital punishment. The practice survives in many states, as also in the federal system. But a long, hideously detailed trial designed to do just one thing — to raise the sentence from a lifetime in prison to capital punishment — has the effect of elevating the one remedy to a distinctiveness which believers in capital punishment reject. If the public holds that execution is appropriate for a murderer, then the public should be spared a judicial flight plan that makes it all sound as though execution depended on the number of screams recorded from people killed by the hijackers. To put this trial in Virginia on a level with Nuremberg-style offensiveness risks mitigating the horror in which Moussaoui was involved...
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how long would mouss last in prison?
More than likely a very long time because the Muslim Brotherhood would protect him night and day.
He would probably turn into a Muslim ring leader.
It would be tempting to vote not to execute him on grounds that he is an Al Qaeda wannabe, not a real terrorist, and suffers from a mental illness, Islam.
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Sure hope the death penalty is avoided- that is exactly what this turd mouss wants. I say a sentence of solitary confinement for life with nothing but bacon renderings, bread and water for nourishment is appropriate. He can have a copy of his precious quran...how about a Chinese translated version?
After his outbursts on the stand the other day, I would say his death warrant is all but guaranteed. He goes on record saying that he smiled when the WTC towers were destroyed and how he sees it as his duty to kill as many Americans as possible pretty much assures his date with the KCl needle.
He dreams of being a martyr. I'd love to hear the judge dismiss him as a small bug and sentence him to life in prison.
"It would be tempting to vote not to execute him on grounds that he is an Al Qaeda wannabe, not a real terrorist, and suffers from a mental illness, Islam."
YES! Proclaim Islam to be a mental illness! (It IS, you know!)
"He would probably turn into a Muslim ring leader."
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Exactly what I was saying to someone recently.
"It would be tempting to vote not to execute him on grounds that he is an Al Qaeda wannabe, not a real terrorist, and suffers from a mental illness, Islam."
YES! Proclaim Islam to be a mental illness! (It IS, you know!)
Sorry for the double
Worse yet, any verdict less than death would, to some, make the attack on America somehow politically justified here as it already is in much of the Middle East and Europe (not to mention college campuses where Ward Churchill and a vast army of other leftists hold sway).
Moussaoui is an animal who definitely deserves to die, but putting him to death is a bad idea because it makes him important: something he never was when he was free. This isn't Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or Mohammed Atta, this is a two bit amateur who was not the 20th hijacker, and who so incompetent Al Qaeda did its best to keep him at arm's length. Don't make him a martyr, lock him up for life in solitary and forget about him.
I've heard our Black Muslims don't like these muslims.
We may not like the Muslim Brotherhood, but when was the last time a member of the Nation of Islam blew himself up? They don't like terrorism because terrorism is bad for business.
And the problem with that would be ....?
As much as I think this piece of crap deserves to die, I do agree with you. He wants to be a martyr. I say lock him up in a cell and pipe in audio versions of The Torah and The Talmud at full blast 24/7. It would be one of the worst things one could do to an Islamofascist piece of crap like him.
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