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Why the #$@! is AG Mukasey speaking out against execution for 9/11 plotters and suggesting US justice is sadist?

By Douglas A. Berman

I have never quite figured out what's going on with the Justice Department under the leadership of AG Michael Mukasey, but this new piece from ABCNews has me really scratching my head.  As reported in the piece, Mukasey is speaking out against the death penalty for terrorists accused of 9/11 involvement, even though DOJ is helping with the capital prosecution of these terrorists.  Here are excerpts from this peculiar and very troubling story: Attorney General Michael Mukasey suggested Friday that he believes the alleged 9/11 plotters held at Guantanamo Bay should not be executed if convicted.  "I kind of hope they don't get it," Mukasey said after a speech at the London School of Economics.  "Because many of them want to be martyrs, and it's kind of like the conversation ...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 16, 2008 (boomark / email).