A majority of the jurors who convicted four men in...

A majority of the jurors who convicted four men in connection with the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania wanted a death sentence for the two terrorists who were eligible for capital punishment.
The revelation came from two female jurors, known only as Juror 2 and Juror 7, who attended the sentencing session.
Mohamed al-'Owhali, Mohamed Odeh, Khalfan Khamis Mohamed were sentenced for their roles in the bombings of U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, on August 7, 1998. Those three and Wadih el Hage also were convicted of taking part in a conspiracy to kill Americans and destroy U.S. property worldwide.
At the end of the trial on July 10, 2001, the jury voted 9 to 3 in favour of executing al-'Owhali and Khamis Mohamed, according to the 2 jurors.
But federal law requires a jury to be unanimous in imposing a death sentence. By failing to reach a unanimous conclusion in the penalty phase, the jury had no other choice: al-'Owhali and K.K. Mohamed would receive life in prison without parole, the sentence pronounced by Judge Leonard Sand.
Co-defendants el Hage and Odeh also received life sentences. They had not faced the death penalty.
"To me it would be worse than death," said Juror 2. "I'd rather be dead than spend the rest of my life thinking about something."
Some jurors expressed the view on their verdict form that life behind bars is a harsher punishment than death by lethal injection. The jurors who talked to reporters described the debate over the death penalty as their most difficult hours, a struggle between vengeance and justice for the 213 people killed in Kenya and the 11 killed in Tanzania.
"In this instance it was an appropriate penalty," said Juror 2. "When you look at the deaths they caused, there is no other horror that could be worse."
The two jurors were two of the dozen New Yorkers who spent seven months this year as the elite audience in a courtroom seminar about bombings, terrorism, Osama bin Laden, and Islamic fundamentalism.
Due to pre-trial publicity and the burden of serving on this case, a prospective jury pool of 1,300 people was screened, each answering a 96-page questionnaire, before being subjected to questioning in court. The panel remained anonymous throughout the trial, although limited biographical information was obtained from their jury questionnaires.
Juror 2 is a white 53-year-old Manhattan resident and registered nurse. Juror 7 is a black 43-year-old accountant from Haiti, a naturalized American.