COUNCIL OF EUROPE. EUROPE SLAMS RULING FOR MOUSSAOUI'S EXECUTION

the Council of Europe slammed the decision to make would-be Al-Qaeda suicide pilot Zacarias Moussaoui eligible for execution in the United States, calling it "as sad as it was wrong".
"You do not honour the memory of the victims by spilling more blood," the pan-European human rights body's secretary general Terry Davis said in a statement after a jury in Alexandria, Virginia, reached the decision on April 3.
"In the context of the fight against terrorism, the death penalty is not only wrong, it is counterproductive," Davis said.
"A trial which offers a platform to the ramblings of a delusional extremist and ends by gratifying him with the instant status of martyrdom in the eyes of his fellow fanatics is missing an opportunity - and missing the point," he said. The government argued that Moussaoui lied "with lethal intent" in jail after his arrest in August 2001 directly resulted in the deaths of at least one person on September 11, 2001.