Killing 270 people isn’t enough to merit the death penalty.
The predictable coda to the Lockerbie bomber being turned over is that he’ll get a nice prison retirement plan with full medical and dental. Killing 270 people isn’t enough to merit the death penalty.
A federal magistrate judge ordered the suspect in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, to be held without bond and scheduled hearings to assign a defense lawyer and determine whether he should remain in custody until trial.
Abu Agila Mohammad Masud Kheir Al-Marimi, 71, is charged with making the bomb that destroyed the plane and faces three federal charges of destroying an aircraft or vehicle used in foreign commerce resulting in death. The Justice Department announced Sunday that Masud was in custody.
Resulting in the deaths of 259 people.
Each count carries a maximum penalty of life in prison or the death penalty and a $250,000 fine. But Assistant U.S. Attorney Erik Kenerson said because the death penalty was not available in 1988, the government would not pursue that penalty if Masud is convicted.
That’s a nonsensical argument.
The Warren court claiming that the death penalty was unconstitutional was, in any case, a response to the specific implementation in 1972. It became constitutional again in 1976. The federal death penalty was only formally reinstated in 1988 in the sense of legal codes, but all of this is beside the point since Al-Marimi is not an American citizen, he’s a foreign enemy terrorist.
Ex parte Quirin settled this already. The Bush administration however failed to properly implement it. The constitution vested the authority to “define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations.” That’s what international Islamic terrorism is.
But the Biden administration, which halted the federal death penalty, and is part of a radical faction that worked to destroy the War on Terror and enable Islamic terrorism can hardly be expected to do anything else except perpetuate their treasons.
Walter Sieruk says
With Joe Biden always misstating the facts about the real nature of Muslim terrorism and about economy and the US/Mexican borders as well as about many other important subjects actually means that Biden is a pathological liar that we shouldn’t expect anything else from him but him specking lies.
To put it another way, creepy old .Joe is such a chronic liar that if he tells someone that “It’s raining outside.” that person would be wise to first look out of the window before believing him.
Walter Sieruk says
First , leave it to Joe Biden and his handlers to attempt to get that mass murderer jihadist freed from the execution that he truly deserves.
Second, that murderous jihadist is ,no doubt , held in a better and more humane prison cell conditions than the non–violent American patriots who are the political prisoners who were falsely arrested at that patriotic pro -Trump rally in Washington DC on January 6,2021.
Those American patriots in the Biden gulag are treated in horrendously cruel cell conditions and brutally abused and viciously beaten by the leftest appointed guards ,
All this is not only wrong ,very wrong but this a heinous affront to justice as well as an abomination to all that is fair good decent, rational good and right.
Fitna says
Thanks for mentioning that Walter on the treatment of the pro-Trump supporters that stormed the Capitol. You only see that kind of behavior from terrible fascist and Muslim states.
People should be rallying for their release, from what I’ve read they didn’t kill anyone…so it’s crazy they’re being treated worse than actual terrorists and it’s completely inhumane, from what I saw they’re kept in a steel box 24/7 in a cell.
It seems the Left definitely has a very vicious streak, one they only save for their political rivals while they treat Muslims with kid gloves.
Walter Sieruk says
With this jihadwatch article it’s fitting to reiterated a earlier posting about bomb that was planted in jet plane by a jihadist who had a sinister and deadly part in that Lockerbie air bombing who had been captured. Still ,there is much blame for that horrendous jihad mass murder.
For other are no doubt ,also guilty for that horrific affront of Muslim terrorism.
For that murderous jihad bombing on December 21,1988 of that Pam Am flight 103, Lockerbie bombing some high and so so high officials of the tyrants in power in Iran with their malice-filled Islamic hate for Americans and America.are likewise guilty.
Those malice-filled mullahs and ayatollahs as well as other sinister and insidious fiends in control of Iran with their destructive intentions are most wicked had a insidious role in what had occurred Some information has been given by a former Revolutionary Guard member, Reza Kahlili, for Iran who defected to the United States.This information about Iran’s possible involvement in that Pam Am bombing is from his book, which is entitled A TIME TO BETRAY pages 291,292, 294, 296.
Alkflaeda says
Whether or not the reasoning behind it is sensible or ethical, this decision does have the positive side effect of not making another Muslim martyr. However, they should get victim impact statements from the families of every one of those who died and require him to listen to them, end to end, as part of his sentence. There is also a need to make sure that he does not either radicalise others, or become a “celebrity” amongst fellow Muslims in custody – perhaps he can say Friday prayers with a suitably vetted Muslim prison officer, rather than attending services.
If he really believes that he will be granted 70 virgins in the next life, it may be that delaying his death, and making the cause old age, will actually seem more punitive to him.
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden is both a falsehood speaker. evil doer ,as he falsely said that he’s a “Christian” yet he attempts to that mass murderer Lockerbie released , in a sense acquitted ,from being executed as should be. For capital punishment is Bible based ,,Exodus 21:12. Romans 13:4.n spite of that some claim to the contrary .
The wickedness of evil old Joe goes even further condemns the non-violent American patriots from January 6, 2021 who haven’t officially found guilty in court to the cruel misery of the Biden gulag.
What a tyrant !
Relating those two terrible things to the Bible , In Proverbs 17:15 the reader is informed that :”Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent- the Lord detests them both.” [N.I.V.]
Evil doing Joe Biden had to ,in the light of the Bible, had spoken another false statement when is said that he’s a “Christian,”