The Moussaoui debate continued today with even La Noonan coming out in favor of a death sentence. There are many good round-ups, but if you check out the Moderate Voice you will get comments from both the right and the left and it appears no one is really pleased with the outcome. Still, I suspect that would have been the case too if Moussaoui had ended up on the injection table, where unanswered questions and making-martyr theories would no doubt have abounded, on the left and the right. Either way a no win situation, so I stick to my residual asset value theory which got a boost from one reader:
Having a terrorist renounce radical Islam would be useful in the battle for hearts and minds. I don't know what the odds of him renouncing radical Islam while serving life in prison are, but I do know what they would be if he was dead.
