A lawyer for the Nigerian man who pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a United States jumbo passenger jet on Christmas Day in 2009 urged a federal judge on Monday not to sentence to Farouk Abdulmutallab spend the rest of his life in prison because it was cruel and unusual punishment.

Abdulmutallab, 25, pleaded guilty in a federal court in October 2011 of trying to detonate a bomb hidden in his underwear as part of a plot orchestrated by al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

He is due to be sentenced on Thursday in Detroit and faces up to life in prison for the bombing attempt aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit that had 289 people on board.

His lawyer Anthony Chambers argued that the mandatory life sentence required under US law for some of the crimes he admitted to committing was unconstitutional, particularly because no one was seriously hurt during the bombing attempt.

“Given the circumstances and what did NOT occur in the instant matter it is fair to say that the mandatory minimum sentence of life imprisonment is excessive and grossly disproportionate to the conduct,” Chambers said in a court filing, emphasising the word “not.”

While not making a specific request, he requested on Abdulmutallab’s behalf that the judge impose a sentence below the advisory guideline range because a life sentence would be a “misinterpretation of justice

http://www.punchng.com/news/dont-sentence-me-to-life-abdulmutallab-pleads/

Woo, why is this news. America is the most dombest nation on earth. Why is this shyt still alive. I thought they already burnt him at stake.
They should sentence him to 1,000 years in prison

I guess he prefers death by hanging over life in prison.

I think it is already a done deal that he will get life without parole. However, if he is good he may get a pardon in like 20 years time.

#Reallysadstory

^A presidential pardon I mean

E should be made to drink 2buckets of beneline @ a go. 4kin pr!ck.

Please we are tyre of this this terorist people from the north. Any way u s a is not like nigeria the guy is a gona

He should be treated like an armed robber and sentenced to death by firing squad, For trying to take his useless life and the lives of hundreds of innocent people.

Why do u want to die in d first instance

[size=18pt]What the lawyer is simply telling the court is,


I WANT TO KILL HIM/HER/SOMEONE  IS



DIFFERENT FROM



I HAVE KILLED HIM/HER/SOMEONE


A MAN CANNOT BE ADMONISHED WITH THE HIGHEST PUNISHMENT FOR AN OFFENCE THAT HAS NOT TAKEN PLACE[/size]!!!

ibide:

Please we are tyre of this this terorist people from the north. Any way u s a is not like nigeria the guy is a gona

As in motor tyre or what??, o boy no go jam person,

300 consecutive life sentences should be good enough for him; one for everyone he tried to kill.

KnowAll:

[size=18pt]What the lawyer is simply telling the court is,


I WANT TO KILL HIM/HER/SOMEONE  IS



DIFFERENT FROM



I HAVE KILLED HIM/HER/SOMEONE


A MAN CANNOT BE ADMONISHED WITH THE HIGHEST PUNISHMENT FOR AN OFFENCE THAT HAS NOT TAKEN PLACE[/size]!!!

Yes, I agree with you but the dork went to go and say by his actions and admission of guilt to all charges that I don't care what you do with me- I am capable of taking it!

I pray that they should forgive him because the boy was brainwashed. In God we trust.

God i tot dis guy is dead,US shudnt pardon him 4 any reason,life imprisonmnt is d best 4 him or death 2 sound a note of warnin 2 other al qaeda groups.

Yes, I agree with you but the dork went to go and say by his actions and admission of guilt to all charges that I don't care what you do with me- I am capable of taking it!

Then we are dealing with a mentally deranged man here. Is like a man who stole a loaf of bread asking for the death penalty, and insisting that is the only punishment satisfiable to him. What would any sane judge do in such a case, presumably section him into a mental hospital and throw the key away I suppose!!1

KnowAll:


Then we are dealing with a mentally deranged man here. Is like a man who stole a loaf of bread asking for the death penalty, and insisting that is the only punishment satisfiable to him. What would any sane judge do in such a case, presumably section him into a mental hospital and throw the key away I suppose!!1

The extraneous political variables in this case mean that your plea of insanity will not be looked at with favour. You write like a lawyer, you should know this already.

they should pardon him and let him go. I believe he deserve a second chance.

@grailife,
pardon my foot!!

he should be punished for even having attempted to kill 289 people on board the airplane. This shouldnt be a tea party at all, in fact he should be executed

they should pardon him and let him go. I believe he deserve a second chance.

Listen to urself

useless boy

Lawyers help us here,  Is there a difference between "attempted murder" and "murder", in terms of punishment.
Should we all wait till the stupid boy blows up the plane before he faces the maximum punishment.
Well, i am happy this is the US and not Europe, because in the US, he is getting life sentence whether he likes it or not and "life" is "life". But in Europe, some silly human rights group would plead for him and he would get 20yrs but only spend 3 and be released,

grailife:

they should pardon him and let him go. I believe he deserve a second chance.

Are you Kidding Me? A Second Chance for Another Home Run?

@dploydx when u said america is dumbest nation? What will u call nigeria who sentence confirmed terrorist to 3yrs in prison

life
imprisonment without the
possibility of parole.

he attempted to bomb the plane including himself thats brainwashing. They should let the boy go. In God we trust.

Life in jail is not even good. If he gets life, after 20 or 30 yrs, he will be let go and deported back to Nigeria and this idio-t will cme and form another deadly Gboko Haram. Its better he is either given 2 life sentences or death.

Grind him and use it for minced meat for fishes, or rather take him to the middle of atlantic ocean and abandon him there with a piece of grenade in his hand as gift, at least he can bomb something b4 meeting his 99 virgins. smmmmmtcheew

The animal doesnt deserve to stay with human beings, he should be condemned to LIFE IMPRISONMENT & safly kept away from sound & rational thinking people.

I really pity the parents.

, I think i prefer lethal injection!,  Why are some dudes here talking about pardon?,  Well, maybe they should pardon him and bring him straight to your family house,  This guy almost blew a plane with about 289 passengers onboard,  As for me, once a terrorist, always a terrorist,  What makes you think after pardon, that abdul will see a grenade on the floor and not look twice?,

so the boy fit fear like this shebi he dey do gragra then.IF he enters US prison, walai they will RECONFIGURE his anal cavity with so much hatred and pleasure on a third world country negro.