First, let me say that I am strongly in favor of the death penalty. It has nothing to do with deterring future crime. It has nothing to do with hate or vengeance. It has everything to do with the fact that a dead rapist will never rape again.

BUT in the case of a radical Islamic militant, a life sentence is a VICTORY for the prosecution. You have to understand that not everyone in the world views life the way we do. (Yeah, I know. Stop the presses.) For an Islamic militant, death equals martyrdom which equals heaven. Sentencing Zacarias Moussaoui to death would have been giving him exactly what he wants. Instead, the U.S. justice system gave him the one thing he didn’t want. He will not go free to plot the downfall of the infidel. He will not be given a free pass to 40 virgins in heaven (that’s Mohamed’s heaven, not mine). Instead, he will spend the rest of his life in a concrete cube with a black and white TV listening to American propaganda and, if God really wants to get even, Robert Tilton. (I heard this morning that while SuperMax cells have TVs they only have educational and religious channels. I’m guessing the Koran does not make frequent appearances. *Evil laugh*)
On his way out of the court room, Moussaoui spouted off that America lost and he won. Please don’t be offended by this. It is the equivalent of the skrawny punk on the playground running off crying with a bloody nose and then, from the other side of the fence shouting, “Oh yeah?! Well you stink!” To the person who delivered that bloody nose, it is icing on the cake. And I loves me some extra icing!