Comments on: Moussaoui and Life

By: legion

legion — Fri, 05 May 2006 16:07:29 +0000

Yeah, RA - 'cause this jackhole makes it look soooo glamorous to be a failed wannabe suicide attacker. Sheesh. By the letter of the law he was charged under (the prosecution's decision, by the way), the gov't had to show that Moussaui's lying directly caused deaths that could have been otherwise prevented. The FBI & CIA's own poor communications about known facts leading up to 9/11 made proving that an impossibility; something (IMHO) the prosecution should have damn well known about before pushing so hard for death. DOJ shot themselves in the proverbial foot with this case.

By: RA

RA — Thu, 04 May 2006 19:58:54 +0000

Those idiot jurers. This man will now be an alstar recruiter for Muslim terrorists IN OUR COUNTRY! Watch his graduates as they leave prison and start blowing people up.

By: Boyd

Boyd — Thu, 04 May 2006 18:29:51 +0000

I just had to respond to this comment, Jazz: That said, Iâ��m personally in favor of capital punishment where appropriate and where guilt is certainly without doubt... Theoretically, someone who's convicted would already meet that standard (yes, I know it's technically different, but "beyond a reasonable doubt" means, by definition, that any lingering doubt is unreasonable, and would seem to meet the quoted clause's requirements).

By: Jazz

Jazz — Thu, 04 May 2006 17:48:31 +0000

Just a thought, James, and at least one of the reports I read on this inferred without directly stating that this came up in the jury room... while the laws as read to the jurists may have been clear enough, there was apparently talk about the fact that the defendant, at the end of the day, didn't actually commit any direct actions resulting in anyone's death. (And before anyone jumps on me about conspiracy, plotting, etc... "direct" in this case would have been flying one of the planes, planting a bomb, something like that.) I have no doubt he would have desperately *liked* to have been "one of those guys" but apparently he was too much of a loon for even the terrorists. That said, I'm personally in favor of capital punishment where appropriate and where guilt is certainly without doubt, and I wouldn't have shed any tears had they pumped the guy full of Drano. Sure, it might have made him a martyr, etc. but then again, they've already got more martyrs than anyone could count. What's one more?