Posted on 08/30/2019 4:44:37 PM PDT by KingofZion
A military judge on Friday set Jan. 11, 2021, as the start of the joint death-penalty trial at Guantánamo Bay of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four men charged with plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that killed 2,976 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
The date .... is the first time that a trial judge in the case actually set a start-of-trial date, despite requests by prosecutors since 2012...
If the 2021 timeline holds, jury selection would start eight months before the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. One major issue the judge has yet to resolve is what evidence will be used at trial. He begins a series of hearings next month with witnesses in an effort by the defense teams to exclude confessions the defendants made to F.B.I. agents in early 2006 as tainted by the years of C.I.A. torture.
*** The five men are charged in a conspiracy case that describes Mr. Mohammed as the architect of the plot in which 19 men hijacked four commercial passenger planes and slammed two of them into the World Trade Center towers and one into the Pentagon, with one crashing into a Pennsylvania field. The other four men are described as helping the hijackers with training, travel or finances.
The charge sheets list the names of the 2,976 people who died in the attacks.
The five men were captured in Pakistan in 2002 and 2003. The C.I.A. then held them incommunicado in its secret prison network, the black sites, where the United States tortured its prisoners with waterboarding, sleep deprivation and other abuse before delivering them to Guantánamo in 2006. That period has complicated the path to an actual trial. *** MORE
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What if they get some sort of jury of retarded people like the OJ jury? Could these terrorists get set free?
We’ve been paying for their care for 20 years.
“Git ‘er done!”
Once again, so much for that “speedy trial” stuff in the Constitution.
This is why death penalty “doesn’t work” according to liberals and libertarians.
First it takes forever to get to trial, then forever to be offed. In all that time, the “punishment” loses its deterrence.
It took about 6 mos total for John Brown to go from felonious action to execution. If executions were swift, the DP would have PLENTY deterrence.
Maybe they could defend them by convincing the jury the accused followed their religious views to the letter, and to convict them would be to say all Muslims are criminals of one kind or another.
Not a very Judeo/Christian conclusion.-Tom
Oops, make that 3 mos.
Trial for Men Charged With Plotting 9/11 Attacks Is Set for 2021
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Hey, why rush to convict these guys?
How about 2121?
Just an absolute fricken’ atrocity that it’s taken this long.
These SOBs should have been executed no later than 6 months after 9/11.
For the unAmerican scum amongst us (e.g. all demoncrats, all moslems, all illegal aliens, all DACA illegals, and all LGBTXZWs), it will become a circus-like rallying cry for the destruction of what's left of the country...
And Trump is cosying up to Pakistan now! Great!
When Zangara tried to assassinate FDR and killed Chernac instead 5 weeks from crime to the chair.
These people have no US Constitutional Rights.
20 years and they are still alive and breathing, some justice system
20 years and they are still alive and breathing, some justice system
So it’s good to wait decades for them to get justice?
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