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Death Penalty at Gitmo

post #1 of 9
2/13/08 at 11:32am
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I am just beside myself. Check it out...

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Originally Posted by Huffington Post
If six suspected terrorists are sentenced to death at Guantanamo Bay for the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. Army regulations that were quietly amended two years ago open the possibility of execution by lethal injection at the military base in Cuba, experts said Tuesday.

Any executions would probably add to international outrage over Guantanamo, since capital punishment is banned in 130 countries, including the 27-nation European Union.

Conducting the executions on U.S. soil could open the way for the detainees' lawyers to go to U.S. courts to fight the death sentences. But the updated regulations make it possible for the executions to be carried out at Guantanamo.

David Sheldon, an attorney and former member of the Navy's legal corps, said an execution chamber at Guantanamo would be largely beyond the reach of U.S. courts.

"I think that's the administration's idea, to try to use Guantanamo as a base to not be under the umbrella of the federal district courts," he said. "If one is detained in North Carolina or South Carolina in a Navy brig, one could conceivably file a petition of habeas corpus and because of where they're located, invoke the jurisdiction of a federal court.
Read the rest here.

Does this bother anyone else? Wasn't one of the hallmarks of US Justice that it was transparent? Why do we need an extra-legal zone? If the evidence is so strong, why do we need a place where the rules are against the defendants? Why must the outcome be rigged?

Bush and his cronies are the worst administration ever. If this happens, there will be no comparison to any other President. I hope that he burns in hell, for making my country like Nazi Germany and Pol Pot's Cambodia.
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post #2 of 9
2/13/08 at 11:39am
Goddamn, I'm ashamed of my country today.
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post #3 of 9
2/13/08 at 11:46am
Only today?
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post #4 of 9
2/13/08 at 2:04pm
Yeah, that whole silly "evidence gathered by torture is inadmissable", and that quaint 5th amendment notion that "no person... shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law..." -- that stuff is just SO last century.

Especially now, when there's so many scary brown people just chompin' at the bit to come to America with their vast armies and navies and air forces to utterly destroy our Christian way of life.
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post #5 of 9
2/13/08 at 2:07pm
I love how they decided Election Year was the perfect time to finally start doing this.
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post #6 of 9
2/13/08 at 2:20pm
I'm against the death penalty under any circumstances, but these circumstances are especially shady. There has got to be some way to stop this.
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post #7 of 9
2/13/08 at 2:54pm
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Without doing any legal research, there would have to be a bill allowing non-American GITMO detainees to challenge their detention in US courts. The only reason I suspect this is because that kind of jurisdiction was stripped by the Military Commissions Act in 2006.

We're going to be years living down the Bush/Cheney administration.
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post #8 of 9
2/13/08 at 2:56pm
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Originally Posted by Devildoubt View Post
We're going to be years living down the Bush/Cheney administration.
Those six men will have significantly less time than that.
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post #9 of 9
2/13/08 at 3:10pm
Reading stuff likes this makes me nauseous. Almost as nauseating as remembering that I used to be pro-death penalty.
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