Moussaoui is an animal who definitely deserves to die, but putting him to death is a bad idea because it makes him important: something he never was when he was free. This isn't Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or Mohammed Atta, this is a two bit amateur who was not the 20th hijacker, and who so incompetent Al Qaeda did its best to keep him at arm's length. Don't make him a martyr, lock him up for life in solitary and forget about him.
As much as I think this piece of crap deserves to die, I do agree with you. He wants to be a martyr. I say lock him up in a cell and pipe in audio versions of The Torah and The Talmud at full blast 24/7. It would be one of the worst things one could do to an Islamofascist piece of crap like him.
I disagree with those who say executing Moussaoui will make him a martyr. He'll be bigger inspiration to al Qaida terrorists if he's a living symbol of resistance in prison. Terrorists can take hostages and demand that Moussaoui be released from prison.
What Moussaoui wants is to live a very long time so he can spend the rest of his days being a pain in the ass and making a mockery of our criminal justice system (that is not hard to do anyway). But he does want the death penalty imposed, for now.
All of his antics in the court room now are designed to make sure he does get the death penalty, to lay the groundwork for all of his future appeals, and to generate sympathy among the ANSWER crowd, the Hollywood left, the Ward Churchill academe and the far left judges that thoroughly infest the federal courts at the appellate level.
A death sentence actually works very well for him now. First, it'll make sure he'll be placed in solitary confinement on death row, protected from other inmates. Second, it mobilizes the moonbat brigades into marching in the streets with their "Free Mumia AND Moussaoui" signs and gets the media to fawn over them while they hang out with Susan Sarandon and Mike Farrell. And last, he and al Qaeda know that even under the best circumstances it'll take years and years for the feds to actually get around to strapping him to the gurney. That's years and years for armies of Ramsey Clark-type attorneys, heavily funded by the likes of Iran, Saudi Arabia and George Soros, to clog up the system with endless appeals and eventually find the right leftist judge who will toss the entire conviction and set Moussaoui free.
And that will be the public relations coup that al Qaeda really wants. And it goes without saying that the media will be ecstatic. They can point to this and gloat, "He sat there and bragged about helping to kill all those people on 9/11, and the Americans still couldn't put him to death, or even jail him!"
"Don't make him a martyr, lock him up for life in solitary and forget about him." What a waste ... insert a needle through his sinuses into his frontal lobes and give him a bit of alcohol and a bit of insulin and a bit of lidocaine, then teach him to rake leaves and carry objects for the rest of his verminous life.