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... rethinking this ...
Maybe the death penalty is too good for the Dzokahr the Terrorist. Maybe his crimes are more deserving of spending the rest of his life warehoused in the Supermax prison, where he spends 23 hours of each day in a concrete box.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Halfway through the trial, prison expert James E. Aiken looked straight at jurors and told them what Zacarias Moussaoui could expect if they sent him away for the rest of his life.
"I have seen them rot," he said. "They rot."
[...]
Already there is a veritable "bombers' row" -- Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center blast; Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski; Terry L. Nichols, an accomplice in the Oklahoma City bombing; Richard Reid, the so-called shoe bomber who Moussaoui testified was to join him in another Al Qaeda hijacking; and Eric Rudolph, who bombed abortion clinics and the Atlanta Olympics.
[...]
All, like Moussaoui, are serving life without parole -- spending their days in prison wings that are partly underground. They exist alone in soundproof cells as small as 7 feet by 12 feet, with a concrete-poured desk, bed and stool, a small shower and sink, and a TV that offers religious and anger-management programs.
They are locked down 23 hours a day.
Larry Homenick, a former U.S. marshal who has taken prisoners to Supermax, said that there was a small triangular recreation area, known as "the dog run," where solitary Supermax prisoners could occasionally get a glimpse of sky.
He said it was chilling to walk down the cellblocks and glance through the plexiglass "sally port" chambers into the cells and see the faces inside.
Life there is harsh. Food is delivered through a slit in the cell door. Prisoners don't leave their cells to see a lawyer, a doctor or a prison official; those visitors must go to the cell.
But prisoners can earn extra privileges, like a wider variety of television offerings, more exercise time and visitation rights, based on their behavior.
There are 1,400 remote-controlled steel doors. Motion detectors and hidden cameras monitor every move. The prison walls and razor-wired grounds are patrolled by laser beams and dogs.
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(Source: "The Slow Rot at Supermax")"I have seen them rot," he said. "They rot."
[...]
Already there is a veritable "bombers' row" -- Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center blast; Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski; Terry L. Nichols, an accomplice in the Oklahoma City bombing; Richard Reid, the so-called shoe bomber who Moussaoui testified was to join him in another Al Qaeda hijacking; and Eric Rudolph, who bombed abortion clinics and the Atlanta Olympics.
[...]
All, like Moussaoui, are serving life without parole -- spending their days in prison wings that are partly underground. They exist alone in soundproof cells as small as 7 feet by 12 feet, with a concrete-poured desk, bed and stool, a small shower and sink, and a TV that offers religious and anger-management programs.
They are locked down 23 hours a day.
Larry Homenick, a former U.S. marshal who has taken prisoners to Supermax, said that there was a small triangular recreation area, known as "the dog run," where solitary Supermax prisoners could occasionally get a glimpse of sky.
He said it was chilling to walk down the cellblocks and glance through the plexiglass "sally port" chambers into the cells and see the faces inside.
Life there is harsh. Food is delivered through a slit in the cell door. Prisoners don't leave their cells to see a lawyer, a doctor or a prison official; those visitors must go to the cell.
But prisoners can earn extra privileges, like a wider variety of television offerings, more exercise time and visitation rights, based on their behavior.
There are 1,400 remote-controlled steel doors. Motion detectors and hidden cameras monitor every move. The prison walls and razor-wired grounds are patrolled by laser beams and dogs.
[...]
I hope Dzokahr the Terrorist gets a life sentence without parole on appeal, and I hope his sentence is carried out at the Supermax facility.
After all, we don't want to impose something as barbaric as a death sentence on a man who murdered, mutilated, and maimed others for the fun of it now, do we?
21 May 2015, 12:02 pm
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21 May 2015, 1:51 pm
Fnord wrote:
I think that it's ironic that people from other countries are horrified by America's legal system when their own governments are infested with pedophiles.
"Massive online pedophile ring busted by cops"
"A big political cover-up of pedophile-ring in U.K. Parliament"
"The paedophile ring at the heart of the British Establishment"
So, which is worse: The justifiable execution of one child-butchering terrorist in the USA, or the institutionalized rape of thousands of children by government officials who have so far eluded prosecution in the UK?
"Massive online pedophile ring busted by cops"
"A big political cover-up of pedophile-ring in U.K. Parliament"
"The paedophile ring at the heart of the British Establishment"
So, which is worse: The justifiable execution of one child-butchering terrorist in the USA, or the institutionalized rape of thousands of children by government officials who have so far eluded prosecution in the UK?
I'm not British though? I don't know why you're linking to this story in reference to my post...
