Steve Gilliard already said what I wanted to about Moussaoui:
Moussaoui was a half-wit, someone Al Qaeda barely trusted to get trained, and he fucked that up. State murder would have given him a dignity he never deserved.
Believe me, I understand the desire to see this idiot die. Osama isn’t gonna be dead any time soon, the rest are in some US gulag, probably to have long trials where their treatment becomes the issue.
But murdering Moussaoui would have been a mistake.
[…] Instead, the prisoner will be tossed into SuperMax, this awful underground prison designed to isolate you in what is in effect a dungeon. And best of all, will be forgotten. He will be lost to the Bureau of Prisons, each day spent in isolation, going madder by the day. No martyrdom, no 72 virgins, no posters in Arab slums. Just a sad loser in permanent lockdown, unable to do anything but think about how he wasted his life.
And that is what he deserves.
Some bobble heads are irrate that they won’t get their vicarious revenge fantasy, now that Moussaoui is going to spending the rest of his life in jail. well, boo fucking hoo. You’d rather reward him for conspiring to (but not actually) attacking us? Because he wants to die. He wants to be a hero but instead, he’s going to Hell. The psychological effects of people in Supermax confinement doesn’t sound pretty:
Prisoners may suffer from hallucinations, anxiety, problems with impulse control, and self-mutilation. In addition, confinement may encourage anger and rage, resulting in further violence. Depression may set in, with prisoners becoming extremely lethargic, losing memory, and refusing to exercise.
Sounds about as close to the Hell as there ever will exist. So why all the complaining?
