Link. The reason he got life rather than a death sentence is because the jurors didn’t vote unanimously to execute him. There’s no info available yet on what the breakdown of the vote was.

I have no comment, really, except that it’s notable that in the biggest case related to the war on terrorism so far, the Justice Department failed to secure the death sentence they were seeking. I’ll be interested to see what their comments on the case are, which are due later tonight or tomorrow morning.