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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
His comments are calculated, though he may very well mean everything he says. He wants the jury to give him the death penalty so he will be martyred, since he lost his chance at it by his own stupidity. If I was on the jury I would fight til the bitter end for life in prison. Throw away the key and let him become forgotten and irrelevant.
Kill him, and he's a hero...to himself and to others.
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I don't really understand the system here. It seems quite obvious to me that keeping him in prison for the rest of his life would be a much better thing for everyone except Moussaoui himself. So why is the prosecution still going for it? They aren't required to ask for the death penalty, are they?
Like you said, kill him and you make a hero out of him for the wackos to look up to and want to emulate. But if you throw him in the slammer for the rest of his life and the glorious life of a martyr turns into the forgotten life of a dimwitted jackass twiddling his thumbs in a grey prison cell for 40 years.