Terror on Trial: Mousaoui Meltdown

An NY Sun editorial sums up the sheer stupidity of wasting taxpayer money putting "Fifth Pilot" Zacharias Mousaoui on trial in search of the death penalty--ZM has pled guilty to enough offenses to get life already, so the trial is on punishment.  As the Sun notes, a Clinton appointee wants to toss the death penalty off the table on a technicality, and that instead we should just hold ZM indefinitely at Gitmo as an unlawful combatant and be done with it.  NRO's Andrew McCarthy offers a legal analysis of the government's trial goof; McCarthy, who prosecuted the 1993 World Trade Center bombers, gives his usual top-notch take.  Executing ZM, in any event, would give him a martyrdom to which he is not entitled.  Lock him up in well-deserved obscurity, with a white-supremacist Nazi cell-mate 100 pounds heavier who wants a girlfriend.