I don't know German law, so I can't really comment on how unfair that is, based on their system. I wish they had extradited him to the US. I guess accessory to murder is a minor infraction in Germany. He was basically sentenced to one and three quarters day in jail for every person he helped to kill.
Britain, for example, has its own "Doctor Death," Harold Shipman, who murdered several hundred people (retail, rather than whloesale); he's serving a life sentence.
Mounir el Motassadeq received the maximum sentence: 15 years in prison. (emphasis by me)
Attorneys representing Americans who lost family members on Sept. 11 and were allowed as co-plaintiffs under German law said they would appeal if el Motassadeq did not receive close to the maximum sentence.
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No country in Western Europe has the death penalty except for "extraordinary crimes". Russia has abolished the death penalty. China leads the world by far in executions, in part because they execute people for "economic" crimes like embezzlement. The US is second (I don't have current figures on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but I'm not prepared to say it might not edge the US in a given year). Everybody else is way behind.
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