Zacarias Moussaoui may have lied to a federal agent which, according to jurors, allowed 9/11 to unfold in all of its gruesome details. The official count records 2,986 deaths in the attacks, including the 19 hijackers. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11.

If Moussaoui is guilty of such a crime then he surely should be drawn and quartered, shot, hanged, buried alive, guillotined, or burned at the stake.

No sissy lethal injection for him.

The 9/11 victims were burned, crushed, smothered, bludgeoned, and squashed.

Maybe we can resurrect that old Apache custom and leave him to die on a bed of South American flesh-eating Fire Ants. That could be televised for all to see.

But is Moussaoui guilty? He seems to be such a braggart, wants to be seen as a big shot, and changes his story all the time. I think he is one big fat liar.

Intelligence sources reported that top-ranking Al-Qaida captives say that Zacarias Moussaoui had nothing to do with 9/11. Their testimonies have been read to jurors in court in Alexandria, Virginia. See: http://tinyurl.com/nklcw.

Some sources have said that he was considered to be unreliable and even crazy. See http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5307608 and dozens of blogs.

I would assume that Moussaoui would be tortured like all the other Al-Qaida operatives captured. However, he wasn't. There are blogs saying that he should be tortured to determine if he is really telling the truth.

I don't think anyone needs to torture Moussaoui to determine if he has been lying. There are plenty of experts around to determine this and his sanity at the same time. If the experts can not tell, then torture him for his own good.

If Moussaoui is killed as punishment, as he may well be, and then it is proven that he was innocent, how would that appear to the American people?

My answer is that nobody would give a damn. He is a detestable person and everybody would just say "Good Riddance!” If he were an American citizen, that could make a difference.

My question is: Do we want to kill an obnoxious man that is innocent just because he lied?

I don't think so. Not if the lies had no effect on 9/11.

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