[goldstategop]

Its old my "parents made me do it" excuse for murder.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[tomkat]

That maggot's still alive ?

[mkjessup]

Poor neglected terrorist sniper, he once got soggy french fries in his McDonald’s UnHappy Meal. Surely he should be spared the death penalty for -that- unfortunate childhood event? Are we barbarians or what?

[Anti-Bubba182]

"..Jurors might not have sentenced convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad to death if they had known that he was abused as a child, that he has brain damage and that there were conflicting witness accounts to some of the shootings,.."

Yeah they would!

[marron]

When someone does something that freakazoid, we assume something really strange must have happened along the way to make him that evil.

Maybe his parents were mean to him, maybe he got caught up in some kind of evil death cult, who’s to say.

Either way, it doesn’t change the appropriate penalty for a serial, lay-in-wait mass murderer. Its the hangman’s rope, or whatever is the modern equivalent these days. He should ask God’s forgiveness, ask God to save his soul, and then go to the gallows like a man.

[kingattax]

Lawyers Argue Muhammad Had Mitigating Factors

judge roy bean woulda hung him and most likely those dandified lawyers too within 30 minutes after the trial ended.

[LiberConservative]

...he was abused as a child, that he has brain damage

Another Muslim "intellectual".

[grey_whiskers]

Jurors might not have sentenced convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad to death if they had known that he was abused as a child, that he has brain damage and that there were conflicting witness accounts to some of the shootings, Muhammad's appeals lawyers argued in court papers this week.

Who's funding the lawyers?

...Wahabbi-types from overseas with lots of money?

Cheers!

[FlingWingFlyer]

I wonder if juries will ever stop falling for that old “abused as a child” defense.

[Fiji Hill]

Jurors might not have sentenced convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad to death if they had known that he was abused as a child...

My heart bleeds purple peanut butter--to use an expression from the 1960's.

[TheSarce]

lawyers James G. Connell III and Jonathan P. Sheldon...

Names of the lawyers making this argument are buried deep in the article, here they are just for reference.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Maryland “Freak State” PING!