They acknowledge their only hope of obtaining the death penalty for the 37-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan descent is to persuade U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema she punished the government too harshly for tampering with trial witnesses and lying to defense attorneys.

We wanted to kill him so bad we tampered with witnesses and lied to the defense? Rule of law anyone? Dear Justice Department, go to hell. You either play by the rules or you go to hell.

Considering the first thing that's going to happen to this guy when he enters general population is that he's going to get shanked, I don't know why they're bothering. Getting the death penalty means in 6 years and after spending god only knows how much more money, they'll fry this guy. Stick him in general pop and he'll be dead in under six months.