'No place on this good Earth' for Moussaoui

M&C: Zacarias Moussaoui has 'no place on this good Earth' and should die for his complicity in nearly 3,000 deaths in the September 11 attacks on the US, a prosecutor argued Monday.

Wrapping up the US government's case before the jury begins deliberations, prosecutor David Raskin sought the death penalty claiming Moussaoui had 'a role in the plot to kill Americans' even though he took no part in the attacks.

A defence lawyer urged the jury to spare Moussaoui and send him to prison for life, saying the confessed al-Qaeda member wanted to die as a martyr and the jury should not give him that satisfaction.

Moussaoui, 37, a Frenchman of Moroccan descent, is the only person to go on trial in the US for the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington. He pleaded guilty last year to six charge of conspiracy related to the attacks.

'Let me be blunt, ladies and gentlemen, there is no place on this good Earth for Zacarias Moussaoui,' Bloomberg News quoted Raskin as saying. Read more

db: No place on this good Earth? A country that sends more of its people to jail than any other nation on the planet must have something to offer him.