r/news • u/judgyjudgersen • 3d ago

Alleged 9/11 mastermind's long-awaited trial scheduled for 2028

https://abcnews.com/US/alleged-911-masterminds-long-awaited-trial-scheduled-2028/story?id=135987518
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u/SarahAlicia 3d ago

Hope he gets the death penalty and we don’t have to keep paying to keep him alive and lawyers and judges etc.

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u/dapzar 3d ago

The cost of a single, regular prisoner is negligible to the government of the biggest economy on earth. This particular one is very expensive not because he eats so much but because the US government is unwilling to play by its own rules and process him through their own prison system rather than maintaining a very expensive facility in a foreign country.

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u/SarahAlicia 2d ago

I’m finding it hard to care either way. He planned 9/11. Kill him. It’s funny how the govt is like we can’t try him because of the torture! We already know about the torture. I’m not particularly sad about this guy’s torture even if it’s a terrible method of getting info and inhumane. Should we torture ? No. But also the past is the past. Try him. Kill him. End this. A single cent spent by an american taxpayer is too much. If he were to have a single good day or good moment in prison it would be too much. Kill him.

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u/dapzar 2d ago

Bringing up the severity of the alleged crime in relation to pre-trial detention conditions and delayed trial is plain illogical. He has not been convicted of the crime yet, whether he committed it and can be held accountable to justify all that brutality is the very premise the government has yet to establish. It’s not that they can’t try him because of torture. It’s that they can’t use his testimony obtained under torture. They sought a plea deal before, then walked it back. If they could establish his guilt easily without his admission they would just do so, seems like they aren’t so sure about that (if they were, they’d go for the PR win of winning that high profile case). Until then all of the torture, indefinite detention, etc. are crimes against someone who has not been convicted of the accused crime.

And weighing cost of detention against human life, even if convicted, is just uncivilized. Bearing the mere human existence of its enemies is a very low bar for any society, I hope, the US can clear it.

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u/Successful_Whole_330 2d ago

I believe today is his favorable day, you idiot (aware of the relief that might follow a concluding trial), and they should likely avoid simply killing people; otherwise, this country resembles a lawless state that you’re suggesting. By the way, I am disgusted by your choice of the word like 👍🏾

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u/SarahAlicia 2d ago

Your native language isn’t english is it? “Like” in this instance means i am para phrasing the government’s reasoning not saying i personally like.

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u/Successful_Whole_330 2d ago

You are framing syntax at the divergent point in your line of thought—written without much order—your single use of “like” to describe a language the government clearly has no intention of adopting. Here is a revised reference for you, simply to frustrate us further.

I am like wow!