Attorney General, Michael Mukasey, brings up a good point.
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Friday he hopes the men charged with participating in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are not executed if found guilty to avoid making martyrs of them.
Mukasey said many terrorists want to be martyrs and that by sentencing them to death, U.S. authorities risk granting those wishes. He made the comments while answering a question after a talk at the London School of Economics.
However, Mukasey said that the punishment would be fitting if the accused are convicted.
“One of them at least is proud enough of it to have written to his wife that he thinks he is innocent because it was only 3,000 (people who died in the attacks),” he said. “If those are not poster children for the death penalty I don’t know who is.”
Still, Mukasey said he leans against the death penalty in this case because “many of them want to be martyrs.”
Even as prisoners, these guys make it hard for us. I want to see them fry. No. I want to see them drawn and quartered. Ever seen “Braveheart?” I was infuriated about the fate 0f William Wallace (Mel Gibson). But that fate would be better suited for these Islamofascist killers.
But, to make them martyrs? What a conundrum.
Nah.
Screw it.
Kill ‘em.
They can be martyrs in their own minds. But there will be lots of satisfied folks in NYC and across the nation. Their martyrdom doesn’t mean sh*t to me. Their god doesn’t exist anyway. To Hell with them.
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