U.S. judge re-sentences Jose Padilla to 21 years on terrorism charges

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Source: Reuters

MIAMI (Reuters) -A U.S. federal judge in Miami re-sentenced Jose Padilla on Tuesday to 21 years for a 2007 terrorism conviction after an appeals court deemed the original 17-year sentence too lenient.

Federal prosecutors agreed not to seek more than 30 years in prison for Padilla as long as his lawyers did not introduce records related to alleged harsh conditions he endured during the 3-1/2 years spent in a South Carolina military prison.

"There are certain things we know and don't know about how Mr. Padilla was held," U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke said on Tuesday before handing down the stiffer sentence.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/09/us-usa-florida-padilla-idUSKBN0H41TW20140909

[hobbit709]

1. They broke his mind, they broke his spirit and now they're breaking what's left of his life.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

2. Such a travesty of justice.

For shame, for shame.

[WilliamPitt]

3. Second paragraph is horrifying.

[Duval]

9. Go to

Democracy Now.org and read some of the coverage. GWB and his gang were so keen on being seen as fighting "terraists", when they should have just looked into a mirror. What Padilla endured is shameful, not to mention unjust.

[WilliamPitt]

10. The introduction to my first book is about Padilla.

I am all too aware.

[Duval]

15. I thought so!! I

was going through memory lane a few minutes ago. Think I'll get your book and read it again.

[strawberries]

4. not sure how I feel

The article says he was an al Qaeda recruit. If that is true then I have no feelings for him and how he is being treated.
If it's a made up charge then shame on us

[hobbit709]

5. NO ONE should be tortured no matter what.

And anyone that is OK with torture is no one I want to have anything to do with.

[strawberries]

8. that's fine

I was speaking of his sentence. I didn't read about his torture. I came on here to learn, to debate, but not to hate.

[GeorgeGist]

6. we torture folks

[Duval]

7. Nooo!

[Billy Budd]

11. I feel utter total contempt for the US Justice System

... a banal corrupt politicized disgusting thing to behold

[rdking647]

12. the padilla case is what turned me into a democrat

he was an american citizen held without charges .
thats just plain wrong.

[azurnoir]

13. so Federal prosecutors made a 'deal'

don't mention torture and we won't go for life or more than 30 years, ya that's just-us

[The Blue Flower]

14. This is sickening

They're going out of their way to make an injustice even worse. What in the world for?

[marble falls]

16. Nothing like piling on. I'd like to here how there's any justice in this.