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And For Dessert, I?d Like the Death Penalty, Please

By Casebook Sherpa

Here’s a question for you: should someone who requests the death penalty be prohibited from receiving it?

From Friday’s New York Times:

[Khalid Shaikh Mohammed], the former senior operations chief for Al Qaeda, said he would represent himself and dared the Guantánamo tribunal to put him to death.

?This is what I want,? he told a military judge here, in his first appearance to answer war crimes charges for the terrorism attacks that killed 2,973 people and set America on a path to war.

?I?m looking to be martyr for long time,? he said in serviceable English, improved, perhaps, by five years of custody, including three in secret C.I.A. prisons.

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Full post as published by Fight The Hypo on June 09, 2008 (boomark / email).