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Moussaoui jurors head into second day of deliberations Updated 4/25/2006 8:49 AM ET USATODAY ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - Jurors in the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui went into a second day of deliberations Tuesday to decide whether the Sept. 11 conspirator should receive a death sentence or life in prison. The jury deliberated for three hours Monday after hearing closing arguments in the six-week trial. Prosecutors told jurors that the decision to sentence Moussaoui to death ought to be relatively easy given the horror inflicted on 9/11 and Moussaoui's glee - evident throughout the trial - at the destruction he helped wreak. Nearly 3,000 people died in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. "If not this case, then when is a death sentence appropriate?" prosecutor David Novak said. "How many people have to die?" Moussaoui's court-appointed defense lawyers, who have been at odds with their client for years, said a death sentence would be giving Moussaoui exactly what he wants - an execution at the hands of his enemies and martyrdom. Moussaoui has said at various times that he believes being executed by the Americans may grant him a path to paradise in the afterlife. Defense lawyer Gerald Zerkin said Moussaoui has twice testified in his own defense and obviously done harm to his own case, first by claiming a direct role in 9/11 after years of denials and then by mocking the testimony of 9/11 victims and their families who tearfully told of their suffering. Moussaoui's transparent contempt for his victims "is proof that he wants you to sentence him to death," Zerkin told the jury. "He is baiting you into it. He came to America to die in jihad and you are his last chance." The jury has only two choices: death or life in prison. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema instructed jurors to balance all the factors that argue for death or life in making their decision. If the jury cannot reach a unanimous decision, Brinkema will automatically sentence him to life. Before boarding a flight from Paris to the Washington area Tuesday to be with her son, Moussaoui's mother, Aicha El Wafi, told AP Television News, "My life is hell." "This has been going on for four years, but now my life is hell. It's hell and that's all," she said. "I feel too much pain to speak." She has complained that her son was being made a scapegoat for the Sept. 11 attacks. Moussaoui is the only person in this country charged in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The jury earlier found him eligible for execution by determining that his actions caused at least one death that day. Although Moussaoui was in jail on Sept. 11, the jury ruled that lies he told federal agents when he was arrested in August 2001 on immigration violations allowed the plot to go forward. Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Posted 4/25/2006 4:04 AM ET [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
