Prosecutors to seek death sentence for six terrorists
According to the Washington Post, military prosecutors are going to seek the death penalty for six terrorists accused of the September 11 attacks.
In a news conference, Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Hartmann, a Defense Department legal adviser, said the six, including alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, are charged with conspiracy, murder in violation of the law of war, attacking civilians and terrorism, among other offenses. He said a charge sheet details 169 overt acts alleged to have been committed by the defendants and uncharged co-conspirators in furtherance of the Sept. 11 plot…
Hartmann said Mohammed is accused of being “the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks,” which he allegedly proposed to bin Laden as early as 1996. According to the charges, he obtained the funding for the plot and oversaw the entire operation, including the training of the hijackers in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
the trials will be “as open as possible,” Hartmann said, and the accused will have the right to call their own witnesses, cross-examine prosecution witnesses and see the evidence presented against them.
“There will be no secret trials,” he said. “Every piece of evidence, every stitch of evidence, every whiff of evidence that goes to . . . the military tribunal will be reviewed by the accused, subject to confrontation, subject to cross- examination, subject to challenge. . . .”
I say if they are found guilty, they do deserve the death penalty. However, I have a feeling that my opinion won’t be the one heard in the coming months.
