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Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Death Penalty In 9/11 Trials May Be Difficult

Reporting from Washington -- After Zacarias Moussaoui -- the accused "20th hijacker" in the Sept. 11 attacks -- was sentenced to life in prison in 2006 because one juror in Virginia refused to agree to the death penalty, Moussaoui clapped his hands and called out, "America, you lost and I won." Now the Obama administration plans to seek a death sentence for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind. The complete article can be viewed at: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-terror-trials30-2009nov30,0,6855010.story

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'm all for the death penalty, but this guy wants to "die for the cause". Let him rot in a prison cell 23 hours a day for the rest of his life. Thats real punishment.