eligibility for the death penalty

I checked the definition of "eligible" in the Oxford and it says "is able to have to do s'thing because they have the right qualifications". I hear on Fox Nuwws that Prosecutors are advancing legal argument to prove Moussawi, an alleged 11Sept terrorist, is "eligible" for the death penalty. If they were to ask me I would tell them they are terrorising the English language in the way they are turning around the meaning of words. What is meant by having the right qualifications for the death penalty? Qualifications? Having a qualification to be killed by the State? So Louis xvi and Charles i had the right qualifications to be beheaded? These people are not only crazy with their torture of the English language, they are crazy about the death penalty. Last year a judge ordered a mad condamne to be given drugs to make her sane enough to be executed. I know Romans like Caligula and Nero were crazy so maybe craziness is a condition for ruling the world. I think we are the crazy ones for letting them do it and get away with it.