Death penalty abolitionists should not be afraid to say this.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, organizer of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, shortly after his capture. Daniel Pearl, another one of his victims.
In a letter to families of the Sept. 11, 2001, victims sent by the Defense Department’s Office of the Chief Prosecutor for Military Commissions, the governmentthat “In exchange for the removal of the death penalty as a possible punishment, these three Accused have agreed to plead guilty to all of the charged offenses, including the murder of the 2,976 people listed in the charge sheet, and to be later sentenced by a panel of military officers.
Thus, it is unsurprising that many of them were outraged by what the government has just done. As the brother of a New York City policeman who died on 9/11, “The prosecution and families have waited for 23 years to have our day in court to put on the record what these animals did to our loved ones. … They committed the worst crime in the history of our country. They should receive the highest penalty.
who said the terrorist “wants to die because it fits into his massively egotistical narrative. … He’s like Napoleon. Wasting away in a cell is not his style. Going out in a bang of glory is.”, “The worst thing we could do to KSM is to keep him alive for as long as possible while making him totally irrelevant. … Not mattering matters more to him than dying.”
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