SO MUCH FOR AMERICAN LEGAL TRADITIONS...LIKE THE PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE:

Obama on terror trials: KSM will die (JOSH GERSTEIN, 11/18/09, Politico)

“I don't think it will be offensive at all when he's convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him,” Obama told NBC’s Chuck Todd.

When Todd asked Obama if he was interfering in the trial process by declaring that Mohammed will be executed, Obama, a former constitutional law professor, insisted that he wasn’t trying to dictate the result.