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Age: 28
State: Colorado

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May 3, 2006 - Wednesday 

...and I for one am glad.  Here's why:

1) He wanted to be a martyr.  Now he doesn't get it.

2) The cost of life in prison, contrary to some beliefs, is not exponentially more expensive than life on death row followed by execution.

3) It sends an important message to the rest of the world, and especially to terrorists and their sympathizers.

4) He now has plenty of time to (potentially, hopefully) begin to feel remorse for his actions.  Perhaps someday he'll apologize.

5) There will be plenty of inmates who will make Moussaoui uncomfortable at best for a long time.

Thoughts?

for some background info on Moussaoui and his case, click here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacarias_Moussaoui

and here
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/crime/terrorists/zacarias-moussaoui/

(the link thing for myspace isn't working.  sorry for the ugliness.)

UPDATE

I was the 83,673rd person to vote on MSN's website about whether or not I agreed with the verdict, and it's running along at 50/50.  What a fun issue to debate!

8:38 PM
 
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Stef

 

I could really care less if he someday apologizes.  It makes me difference, he still did what he did and that will never change.  Apologies are worthless in this life.  (harsh? maybe). 

I have a difficult time with the death penalty.  Not that I am for or against it really, but I like to think that we save that for special cases.  And like you said Peter, he doesnt deserve to die. Even if it would have cost 2 BAZILLION dollars more...he should still have to sit there......and sit there...and sit there....


 
Posted by Stef on May 3, 2006 - Wednesday - 8:56 PM
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Stef

 

correction *  it makes NO difference to me*

 

i got all excited and forgot how to type...this is what these things do to me...


 
Posted by Stef on May 3, 2006 - Wednesday - 8:57 PM
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Peter

 

Well put.  And I think when you say "he doesn't deserve to die" you mean that he deserves worse, which, in our collective opinions, is life imprisonment.  Am I right?

I know he'd rather have death cause he's convinced that he'll get 72 virgins.  I think Satan would probably shove pineapples up his rear instead.


 
Posted by Peter on May 3, 2006 - Wednesday - 10:21 PM
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Barechee

 
I think Moussaoui's gonna get his salad tossed.
 
Posted by Barechee on May 3, 2006 - Wednesday - 9:15 PM
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Peter

 

Ew.  I'm tempted to delete that, but it's just too darn funny.

Oh, and for the record, I think he's gonna toss a lot of salads, not the other way around.


 
Posted by Peter on May 3, 2006 - Wednesday - 10:16 PM
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Barechee

 

Crap.  Shows what I know. 

On a serious note, one reason that I oppose the death penalty is that the possibility is not taken away for God to work in the lives of terrible people.  Zac (as I often call him) is so blatantly anti-Christian, anti-America, anti-anything good, pro-being a jerkface, that it's hard to even fathom the possibility of God changing this man's heart or even using him in any sort of positive way.  Perhaps as he suffers as he should, a miracle happens.  God strikes him blind on the road to Damascus.  Meh, probably not. 


 
Posted by Barechee on May 4, 2006 - Thursday - 9:47 AM
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the deulens
ChrisnJulie Deulen

 
All this salad talk is making me want to do a colon cleanse.

I like the life sentence for all of the reasons above, but also because if he knows his Quran, he knows he still has a chance to go to hell, should Allah choose to do so even after a life of submission to his terrible belief system. That, and gives God the chance to kill him, instead of us taking matters into our own hands. Maybe he'll be eaten by worms from inside out!
 
Posted by the deulens on May 4, 2006 - Thursday - 1:10 PM
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Josh

 
I like the life sentence, and have nothing to add unless I'm mistaken as to the reasons why.

I will comment, however, that a man in his situation I cannot see ever having the slightest remorse for his actions, barring supernatural occurences. Really though, bottom line, whether death or life in prison, it's inconsequential to me. I'm just glad that we got this guy and will make him answer for what he did.

 
Posted by Josh on May 5, 2006 - Friday - 5:35 AM
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