The Justice Department announced Tuesday that it will not seek the death penalty against Ahmed Abu Khattala, 54, a U.S.-designated terrorist whom prosecutors accuse of leading the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans. The announcement, contained in a notice to the federal trial court in Washington, clears the way for a major terrorism trial in the nation’s capital, the first in the United States since 2015, barring a plea agreement by Abu Khattala.
The decision ended a lengthy review after President Obama aired concerns in October that while he supported capital punishment in theory, he found it “deeply troubling” in practice. The move marked somewhat of a shift for the Justice Department, one year after federal prosecutors last May secured a death sentence in a capital terrorism case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. READ MORE
What a crock of shit. No death penalty for this guy!!!!! Why the hell is the # 1 threat to America, yes our Islamic president getting involved in these court cases??? Doesn’t he have anything else to do?? What is he going to involve himself in next, parking tickets on Muslin owned vehicles. Does he have a clue how loud the world is laughing at him???? What a clown!!!!!