The only person convicted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks wants to serve out the remainder of his life sentence in France, but Republicans are having none of it.

Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott of Florida led a letter telling President Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland that “under no conditions should this terrorist be granted the privilege of returning to his homeland.”

“No consideration whatsoever should be given to this convicted terrorist’s preferences for where to serve his sentence for his heinous crimes, and we demand that you swiftly deny his transfer request and force him to spend the remainder of his pathetic life imprisoned in the country he and his fellow terrorists attacked 23 years ago,” said the Thursday letter signed by a dozen GOP senators.

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Zacarias Moussaoui, 56, serving his sentence at the Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado, has asked a federal judge to transfer him to France, saying he worries that he will be executed if former President Donald Trump wins the November election.

In their letter, the senators said nothing can bring back the nearly 3,000 people killed on Sept. 11, 2001, but that the “surviving family members of the victims should be able to expect that our government will keep Moussaoui confined in an American prison for the entirety of his life sentence without the possibility of release or transfer.”

On 9/11, our nation was attacked by Islamic terrorists. One of the participating terrorists has requested the @TheJusticeDept to let him return to France.

Joined @SenRickScott in urging the Biden admin to ensure no privileges are given to this thug.https://t.co/l8eSYDcWxO

— Senator Marco Rubio (@SenMarcoRubio) July 26, 2024

Moussaoui made his transfer request in a handwritten May 13 letter to U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia, who presided over his 2006 trial.

She hasn’t responded to his request to leave the maximum-security prison known as Supermax.

Cornell Law School professor William Jacobson, who runs the Legal Insurrection Foundation, said Moussaoui’s fears of being executed under a presidential executive order are unfounded.

Asked if the president may order a prisoner put to death, Mr. Jacobson said, “No, of course not, but apparently he doesn’t know that!”

The other Republicans on the letter are Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Mike Crapo and Jim Risch of Idaho, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Mike Braun of Indiana, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Ted Cruz of Texas, John Hoeven of North Dakota and Pete Ricketts of Nebraska.