A federal jury in New York sentenced Khalfan Khamis...

A federal jury in New York sentenced Khalfan Khamis Mohamed to life without parole for the August 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, that killed eleven people.
The seven women and five men deliberated his fate for three days before rejecting the prosecution's call for the death penalty.
Defence attorneys argued that Mohamed was not a leader of the terror conspiracy and a minor participant in the bomb plot, and that other equally or more culpable conspirators don't face the death penalty. Defence attorneys said that Mohamed's execution would make him a martyr.
The worry that an execution would justify future terrorist acts weighed on the jury in rejecting the governments plea against a death sentence against Mohamed al-'Owahli, convicted of killing 213 people by carrying out the bombing of the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, just minutes before the Tanzania attack.
On May 10, the federal trial began on four people for belonging to Osama bin Laden group. Mohamed Rashed Daoud al-'Owhali, 24, from Saudi Arabia and Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, 27, from Tanzania, could be sentenced to death for bombing of the U.S. Embassies in Nairobi (Kenya) and Dar es Salaam (Tanzania).
On May 28, the 4 were convicted of all charges in the 1998 bombings of 2 U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 people and injured thousands of others. Two defendants were convicted of counts that could carry the death penalty. Rashed Daoud Al-'Owhali, 24, of Saudi Arabia; Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, 27, of Tanzania; Wadih El-Hage, 40, of Arlington, Texas; and Mohamed Sadeek Odeh, 36, of Jordan, were convicted of conspiring to kill Americans in the nearly simultaneous bombings, on Aug. 7, 1998, at embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The death penalty counts pertained to Al-Owhali and Mohamed, who were convicted of using an explosive to cause mass destruction.
The same day, the South African Constitutional Court ruled that South African government illegally handed over to U.S. authorities a Tanzanian suspect now on trial in New York for the bombing of 2 American embassies in Africa. The court said the government should not have turned over Khalfan Khamis Mohamed without first obtaining from U.S. authorities assurances that Mohamed would not face the death penalty. South Africa's constitution does not permit the death penalty and requires assurances that suspects not face execution before they are extradited. But the South African government does not intend to petition the United States to save Khalfan Khamis Mohamed from possible execution, the justice ministry said. "The matter is in the hands of the United States now. We can't dictate terms to the US," said ministry spokesperson Paul Setsetse.