Moussaoui Found Eligible for Death Penalty

[Annie]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060403...TwTv5UB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

Moussaoui Found Eligible for Death Penalty

By MATTHEW BARAKAT, Associated Press Writer 20 minutes ago

A federal jury found al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui eligible Monday to be executed, deciding that his lies to FBI agents led directly to at least one death in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

The only person to face charges in this country in the nation's worst terrorist assault, Moussaoui now faces a second phase of his sentencing trial to determine if he actually will be put to death.

He sat in his chair and prayed silently as the verdict was read. He refused to stand.

"You'll never get my blood, God curse you all," he said afterward.

The nine men and three women of the jury will hear testimony on whether the 37-year-old Frenchman, who was in jail at the time of the attack, deserves to be executed for his role.

The testimony will include families of 9/11 victims who will describe the human impact of the al-Qaida mission that flew four jetliners into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field.

Court-appointed defense lawyers, whom Moussaoui has tried to reject, will summon experts to suggest he is schizophrenic after an impoverished childhood during which he faced racism in France over his Moroccan ancestry.

"By this verdict, the jury has found that death is a possible sentence in this case," court spokesman Ed Adams said.

On the key question before the jurors, they answered yes on whether at least one victim died Sept. 11 as a direct result of Moussaoui's actions.

Had the jury voted against his eligibility for the death penalty, Moussaoui would have been sentenced to life in prison.

The jury began weighing Moussaoui's fate last Wednesday. During its deliberations, jurors asked only one question, seeking a definition of "weapon of mass destruction." One of the three convictions for which Moussaoui could be executed is conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction.

The jurors were told that a plane used as a missile — the tactic employed on Sept. 11 — qualifies as a weapon of mass destruction.

Moussaoui pleaded guilty last April to conspiring with al-Qaida to hijack aircraft and other crimes. At the time, he denied being part of the 9/11 plot, saying he was being trained for a separate attack, but he changed his story when he took the stand and claimed he was to have flown a hijacked airliner into the White House that day.

Moussaoui was in jail at the time of the attacks, but prosecutors argue federal agents would have been able to thwart or at least minimize the attacks if he had revealed his al-Qaida membership and his terrorist plans when he was arrested and interrogated by federal agents.

 

[ThomasPaine]

out within a month. Better yet hang the worthless puke in public and let his body hang there for the buzzards and crows..

 

[Shattered]

Moussaoui pleaded guilty last April to conspiring with al-Qaida to hijack aircraft and other crimes. At the time, he denied being part of the 9/11 plot, saying he was being trained for a separate attack, <b>but he changed his story when he took the stand and claimed he was to have flown a hijacked airliner into the White House that day.</b>

We're wasting money and time on this...why, exactly? We need a "Phase 2" for what, exactly?

The security guards in the courtroom have guns with bullets. He should have never left the courtroom in anything but a body bag that day.

 

[manu1959]

Moussaoui Found Eligible for Death Penalty

we have a winner

 

[Shattered]

Moussaoui Found Eligible for Death Penalty

we have a winner

"Eligible" implies there should still be room for discussion. I disagree.

 

[Gunny]

.45 to the temple on PPV. End of story.

 

[Shattered]

.45 to the temple on PPV. End of story.

NOW I remember why I like you.. You think like I do.

 

[Bonnie]

.45 to the temple on PPV. End of story.

Or......Sentence him to life but let him loose among the hardest criminals and sit back when he gets his head bashed in... This way he doesn't get to die a martyr's death and we get the added benefit of saving tax payer money to house him for the next 40 years or so.

 

[manu1959]

Or......Sentence him to life but let him loose among the hardest criminals and sit back when he gets his head bashed in... This way he doesn't get to die a martyr's death and we get the added benefit of saving tax payer money to house him for the next 40 years or so.

too true....send him to pelican bay and house him with the aryan brotherhood

 

[Bonnie]

too true....send him to pelican bay and house him with the aryan brotherhood

That would be fun..He would last what a whopping 30 seconds???

 

[Gunny]

I was trying to be expediant and NOT get carried away with some more appropriate methods for exterminating this vermin.