Moussaoui Gets Life
Al Qaeda terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui should spend the rest of his life in prison for his role in the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, a federal jury decided Wednesday.
The nine men and three women returned their verdict on the seventh day of deliberations after reliving the September 11 attacks through weeks of harrowing testimony and evidence.
U.S. District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema will formally sentence Moussaoui Thursday at 10 a.m.
Jurors sent a note Wednesday afternoon indicating they had reached a verdict after 41 hours of deliberations. The jury had two choices – death by injection or life in prison.
During the trial’s monthlong penalty phase, jurors heard the voices of the doomed office workers at New York’s World Trade Center calling 911 for help and listened to the first public playing of the cockpit voice recorder of United Airlines Flight 93.
They watched videos of victims leaping to their deaths from the flaming twin towers. They were shown images of charred remains found in the rubble of the trade center and at the Pentagon in northern Virginia, about 10 miles from the Alexandria courthouse where the trial was held.
And they twice heard from an unrepentant Moussaoui, who said he is willing to kill Americans “any time, anywhere.”
Source: CNN.
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