Military Law,
Government,
Criminal
Oct. 1, 2018
How to propel the Guantánamo cases to trial
This article not a judgment on the merits of capital punishment or its appropriateness in these cases, which include defendants charged with participating in the 9/11 attacks. Rather, it is a commentary on the degree to which chronic delays at Guantánamo risk putting these trials in doubt.
On September 11, our nation observed a poignant ritual that has been repeated now for 17 years: In recognition of each life lost in the 9/11 attacks, every victim's name was read aloud at Ground Zero. It took more than three hours to recite them all.
In contrast to the simple dignity of that ceremony, the legal machinery for adjudicating the fate of the alleged perpetrators of this atrocity has produced little more than frustration a...
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