Moussaoui Gets Life for 9/11 Role

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Moussaoui Gets Life for 9/11 Role

From terrorismcentral.com

Convicted Sept. 11 terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui said “America, you lost. I won!” as he was escorted from the courtroom after the verdict was read on Wednesday, May 3.

The so-called 12th hijacker escaped the death penalty and was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.

Washington Post:

A federal jury decided today to spare the life of Zacarias Moussaoui, finding that the avowed al-Qaeda conspirator should be sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist plot.

Announcing the verdict outside U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Edward Adams, a court spokesman, said the 12 jurors “were not unanimous” in favor of a death sentence for Moussaoui, meaning that he automatically gets a life sentence without possibility of parole. He said the verdict does not indicate how many jurors voted for a death sentence and how many opted to keep the defendant in prison.

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By Nene Dakai, May 4, 2006 at 3:22 am Link to this comment
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If he’d been sentenced to death, the sentence would likely have been overturned on appeal because of the many prejudicial errors in the trial. Moreover, without his grandstanding guilty pleas, the government would have found it difficult to convict him of much. In all, bad theater, nothing gained!

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