"Tell it to the wussified jurors though. "
I find this the funniest part of the whole thing. There was probably some lib on the jusry that didn't want to execute him. But, I think what they really caused was a punishment much more than death.
I like to use an example, in this case (and this is all my opinion), the jusry screwed up. I am talking about Scott Peterson. The jury gave him the death penalty. He will probably die of old age and the sentence never executed. This is in part because on death row he is in his own cell. Had the jusry given him life though, he would have been placed in general population and I suspect wouldn't have lasted very long.
Since we are at war with islam, I firmly believe we need to bomb mecca and any other religious shrine to demonstrate their "god" is powerless and a phoney. Only then, will the mooslims understand their islamic mistake and pursue peace.