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AG Mukasey — don’t execute the 9/11 plotters & other Gitmo detainees

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

ABC News reports: 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. … In February, the Pentagon charged six of the 9/11 conspirators, including the alleged mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed. The others: Walid Bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Mustafa al Hawsawi?who the government claims is a key financier for the attacks?and Mohammed al Kahtani, who is alleged to have been the 20th hijacker on United flight 93 but was denied entry into the United States at the Orlando International Airport. In response defense counsel for several of the detainees weighs in: US Attorney General Michael Mukasey said late on Friday he hoped Guantanamo prisoners charged in the Sept 11 attacks would not receive the death penalty, even though capital punishment would be fitting...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on March 17, 2008 (boomark / email).