He had the intent to kill 289 people, and has certainly shown no remorse, but wants to be let off easier because he happened to fail. "Underwear bomber challenges life sentence," by Tresa Baldas for the Associated Press, February 13 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
DETROIT -- Confessed underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is challenging his mandatory life in prison sentence, arguing in court documents filed Monday that a life sentence is "cruel and unusual punishment" and unconstitutional.Abdulmutallab, who is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday, is facing a mandatory life in prison sentence after pleading guilty in October to trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner carrying nearly 300 people with a bomb hidden in his underwear. He pleaded guilty to numerous criminal charges, including attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, and conspiracy to commit terrorism.
The plot was foiled when his bomb malfunctioned.
"Given the circumstances and what did NOT occur in the instant matter it is fair to say that the mandatory minimum sentence of life is excessive and grossly disproportionate to the conduct," Abdulmutallab wrote in court documents Monday. "Aside from the defendant no passengers suffered any serious injuries and there were no casualties."
The government strongly disagrees, and has asked U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds to give him the maximum punishment."Defendant is an unrepentant, would-be mass murderer, who views his crimes as divinely inspired and blessed, and who views himself as under a continuing obligation to carry out such crimes," prosecutors wrote Friday in a sentencing memo. "He attempted to murder 289 individuals, no sentence other than life. … Could possibly reflect the seriousness of defendant's conduct."
In pushing for a stiff sentence, the government also disclosed Friday details about Abdulmutallab's relationship with a well-known al-Qaida figure.
According to court documents, Abdulmutallab spent months pursuing American-born Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, where the two men eventually met and hatched out a plan to blow up an American airliner over U.S. soil on Christmas Day 2009. In the weeks leading up to the bombing attempt, the two men texted each other, spoke briefly on the phone and ended up spending three days together at al-Awlaki's house planning the attack, the government wrote in court documents.
Al-Awlaki eventually led Abdulmutallab to a bomb maker, who trained the Nigerian defendant on how to ignite the bomb, according to court documents. It was al-Awlaki, the government says, who ultimately approved the martyrdom mission.
"Awlaki's last instructions to him were to wait until the airplane was over the United States and then to take the plane down," prosecutors wrote in court documents.
Just behead him, that won't be cruel and unusual. problem solved!!
Tut, tut, tut. Islam trying to open a 'Y front' against the West and failing miserably. :))
Clown!
Put him in bare feet at center ice at "The Joe" and set the Red Wings loose on him for about a year with pucks and checks and then we'll see if he deserves any leniency.
Go Red Wings!
but attempting to kill three hudred inocent people is not cruel.
M
Too bad, crotch-boy.
Rot in prison for the rest of your life, Mohammedist pig.
"cruel and unusual" ???
This kind of punishment is NOT cruel, it's NOT unusual, right? Hypocrites.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/04/muhammad-and-torture-mahomet-et-la.html
Why wouldn't a US based carpet humper believe that he may practise jihad murder with quranic impunity? That demand is typical of what those aggressors and subversives are getting.
Did I get it right Sukhail?
"Awlaki's last instructions to him were to wait until the airplane was over the United States and then to take the plane down." In other words the express intention was to try and kill many people on the ground in addition to the 300 on the aircraft.
awalaki: rest in S...
Cry me a river........
They should've stitched up a piece of raw pork intestine in the guy's mouth and hanged him.
Abdullamutallab had intended to kill a lot more than 289 people on board as he was to follow Alwaki's instruction to wait to detonate the bomb until the plane was "over the United States." Isn't there more suitable sentence than mere life in prison?
Uncle Kepha:
"They should've stitched up a piece of raw pork intestine in the guy's mouth and hanged him."
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Ouch, Kepha. You have a little "dark side", don't you?
:-)
He's correct! It is cruel and inhuman punishment heaped on the shoulders of all taxpayers to pay for his warm and dry bed, three meals a day, full medical benefits, a legal library to browse at will, TV to watch and papers to read.
Much better to execute the bastard.
He is merely being in character as an Islamic supremacist. Cruel and unusual punishment would be being sentenced more severely and differently than all the other would-be mass murderers. He wants special treatment and leniency (if prosecuted at all), being a Muslim engaged in jihad against non-Muslims. That is what he would expect under Sharia law . . .
Yes, David, I fear there really is a highly unsanctified part of Uncle Kepha.
I suppose, thought, there's another side to this. On the one hand, I really hate the poor, overburdened, civilized taxpayer made to support a bunch of lowlifes for the rest of their natural lives, even if in prison conditions. On the other, I'm very tired of proven criminals whining about how badly they're treated by society. This is one reason why I think that when there's a clear-cut case against someone who's committed a truly heinous crime, we should use the death penalty. I'm not talking about atonement or anything like that, but merely removing truly evil people from society--completely and finally. After all, even social democratic Norwegians suspended their hatred of the death penalty in Vidkun Quisling's case, when he did not directly kill anyone. In this undies bomber's case, he actually had a lot of malice aforethought. Given that he himself wanted to die, the judges should've decided to spare the taxpayers the greater expense.
Failed underwear bomber says life sentence for attempted mass murder would be cruel and unusual
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Don't you "love" this? This vicious Jihadist has only been in the united States since his arrest for attempting to murder large numbers of us, yet he is already well-versed in trying to game the system and try to make us feel guilty for giving him life.
Murdering 300 Americans? Perfectly acceptable. Putting away the would-be mass murderer for life? oh no! That's "cruel and unusual"!
Actually, this is exactly the verdict I was expecting.
What panty-boy really means is that under Shari'ah any response by Infidels to their own mass-murder would not be allowed.
More:
The plot was foiled when his bomb malfunctioned.
"Given the circumstances and what did NOT occur in the instant matter it is fair to say that the mandatory minimum sentence of life is excessive and grossly disproportionate to the conduct," Abdulmutallab wrote in court documents Monday. "Aside from the defendant no passengers suffered any serious injuries and there were no casualties."
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My God, *what gall*.
For one thing, he did not stop *even after his detonator malfunctioned*—other passengers wrestled him down *while he was attempting to detonate the bomb manually*.
Moreover, his whining about being the only one who suffered serious injuries is *grotesque*. His burned crotch is just a foretaste (ew!) of what he had planned for his victims. And if he is referring to any bruising suffered in his take-down, then he has even more gall.