Life Sentence for Bin Laden's Son-in-Law Is Hardly 'Soft' on Terrorism
Category: WORLDPOST
Critics have expressed legitimate concerns about U.S. conspiracy law, saying it's too easy to convict some people accused of low-level terrorist assistance and sentence them to hard time in highly restrictive prisons. But the claim that the U.S. prison system gives terrorists rights that ought to be reserved for U.S. citizens is simply impossible to support.
By Daphne Eviatar, ContributorSenior Counsel, Human Rights First, 2014-09-23