Moussaoui Sentencing Trial Enters Second Phase
06 April 2006
The sentencing trial of convicted terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui enters a second phase Thursday, with jurors hearing from relatives of victims of the September 11th, 2001 terror attacks.
At the end of this phase, the jury will decide if Moussaoui will be executed or spend the rest of his life in prison.
The relatives' testimony comes a day after a U.S. federal judge ruled that the cockpit voice recording of the hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 can be played at the trial. She has given the families of the passengers on that flight until next Tuesday to tell her if they would object to the recording being released to the public after it is played in the courtroom.
Flight 93 crashed into a field in Pennsylvania after some of the passengers are believed to have fought the hijackers. The hijackers are thought to have wanted to crash the plane into the U.S. Capitol.
A jury decided on Monday that Moussaoui can face the death penalty.
Moussaoui was arrested in August 2001 on immigration charges. Prosecutors say he was responsible for at least one of the many September 11th deaths because he did not inform authorities of the terrorist plot.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP and AP.
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