Arkansas Blog

Pretty quick on the draw, there, Max. I just heard the same announcement on KUAR/NPR about the same time you posted.

For once, with the help of the courts, the US has acted in a civilized manner.

guess he'll have to wait a few years for his 72 virgins. I'm sure he's actually very disappointed, which is why I'm extremely pleased with the decision.

This is the same sentence he could have received after he pled guilty.

I wonder how much this trial cost both in terms of money and manpower that could have been devoted to finding terrorists who aren't yet sitting in prison.

I have no love for this guy, but for various reasons I'm glad he didn't get the death sentence. First of all I think there is a good possibility he's nuts.

Secondly, if he isn't nuts, keeping him alive might cause him to open up on down the road and give us some info that might be important.

Thirdly, he wants death, it's far rougher on him to live out the rest of his life in prison.

I wish Tim McVeigh was still alive so maybe we'd find out someday the whole story of the OKC bombing. Now we'll never ever know.

monumental setback for the
bush justice department. alexandria
juries not known for their
compassion. can you say incompetence
boys and girls?

in the meantime, why haven't
the bushies prosecuted the
terrorists, in custody, who actually
planned the 9-11 attacks?

Good, there was no reason to make him a martyr. And that saves 72 virgins.

I am still having an issue with the government's main focus that he didn't tell the FBI about the plot. I thought that there was this provosion in the law (or at least until KG I) about self incrimination. If he told them, then he would be putting himself open to the maximum penalty. What am I missing here?

Life in the pen will cost the tax payers a lot of tax money that could be put back in their pockets...a 9mm bullet costs about a buck. Too bad

You're just not happy unless your killing someone huh, Anon?

And I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that since last Sunday at about 6 pm, 41,245 people have taken the time to go to http://thankyoustephencolbert.org/
and thank Stephen Colbert for sticking it to Bush and the media. During this same period of time 9 more US soldiers were butchered in Iraq bringing the new total to 2409 dead soldiers and an equal if not larger number of American families destroyed. But forget all that, Bush was sure funny up there with his double....har har har

956 anon:

How much do you figure Moussaoui's detention will come out of your pocket?

I'd gladly pay your share in addition to my own to live in a land civilized enough to spare a guilty man's life.

Civilization has its costs.

Feed him pork three times a day for the rest of his life.

Douse him in jet fuel, set him on fire and kick him off the top of the Sears Tower.

I favor death penalties but not in this case for some reason. Keeping him in jail for life surrounded by the people he hates will be good for him. Maybe the convicts will deliver their own brand of justice.