Mike the Usurper wrote:

After seven days of deliberation, the nine men and three women rebuffed the government's appeal for death for the only person charged in this country in the four suicide jetliner hijackings that killed nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001.

Good for the jury. He doesn't get to be a martyr. He gets the privilege of being someone's bitch in prison for a while before someone decides he doesn't have a "purty mouth" and shivs him.

Let's look at this pragmatically for a second, divorced from the emotional. He'll likely have to be put into special protection, to keep him from the general population, since he would most assuredly be killed and rather quickly by any general population in any US prison anywhere. That raises the dollars needed to incarcerate him significantly. You could compare the dollars necessary to send him up to death row and the years associated with the appeals process for doing that, with life in prison with special protection. Which is cheaper? Do you think it's correct or a good use of funds to spend on someone who was proven to cause the most destructive act on US soil?

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