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Feds Seek Death Penalty for Boston Bombing Suspect Tsarnaev

danarhea said:
There are 70 on Federal death row, but there have only been 3 executions. The last one was in 2003.
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Ponderous and glacier like speed
 
OHHHH but the DOJ had a fit when Texas wanted to execute a Mexican. This cat is a naturalized non-citizen
 
WCH said:
OHHHH but the DOJ had a fit when Texas wanted to execute a Mexican. This cat is a naturalized non-citizen
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The DOJ had not choice, it was a loophole. The bomber doesn't have the same loophole.
 
I can think of ways to lower the deficit... hold a lottery for the right to push the button that detonates the C4 attached to this guys ass, as he sits chained to a chair in the desert. $10 a ticket, no limit on number you can buy. That'd raise quite a bit I think.
 
Personally? His crimes don't shake my opposition to the death penalty. Executing him serves no purpose and will accomplish no end. The families lives cannot be made whole or healed by his limp execution on a prison gurney anymore than they can by his imprisonment. His execution will only serve to perpetuate a method of sentencing that is not only expensive, non-productive, and quite frankly barbaric but also has a deep and serious impact on our criminal justice system in innumerable ways not limited to its use as a cudgel in plea negotiations which we know has sent many innocent people to prison for life.

Abolish the death penalty, entomb Tsarnaev in some federal dungeon if need be, and reform the criminal justice system. Least, that's what I'd like to see happen.
 
Sherman123 said:
Personally? His crimes don't shake my opposition to the death penalty. Executing him serves no purpose and will accomplish no end. The families lives cannot be made whole or healed
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But it can bring closure to the living relatives and closure to those that survived this mans atrocities.
 
Good. I am glad they are going all in for this son of a bitch.
 
Kal'Stang said:
But it can bring closure to the living relatives and closure to those that survived this mans atrocities.
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Although I would love to see the death penalty used, I am still against it. Texas has executed more than one innocent person recently. That should be reason enough not to have a death penalty. Some people may deserve it, but innocent people do not. Those who ramrodded these executions need to either repent of the murders they committed in the name of the state, or spend eternity in hellfire.

Carlos DeLuna

Cameron Todd Willingham
 
danarhea said:
Carlos DeLuna
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While I oppose the death penalty I had to laugh at this argument:

* Prosecutors and police ignored tips unearthed in the case files that Carlos Hernandez, an older friend of DeLuna, who had a reputation for wielding a blade, had killed Lopez. The defense failed to track down Hernandez, who bore a striking resemblance to DeLuna.

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In other words... they were both Hispanic males.
 
WCH said:
It wasn't a loophole for Texas, we executed the murdering bastard anyway.
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And when our citizens are mistreated by foreign justice systems abandoning their diplomatic commitments to us, we'll have you to thank.
 
Morality Games said:
And when our citizens are mistreated by foreign justice systems abandoning their diplomatic commitments to us, we'll have you to thank.
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He killed a cop while in custody. He was far from being mistreated.
 
jmotivator said:
While I oppose the death penalty I had to laugh at this argument:

* Prosecutors and police ignored tips unearthed in the case files that Carlos Hernandez, an older friend of DeLuna, who had a reputation for wielding a blade, had killed Lopez. The defense failed to track down Hernandez, who bore a striking resemblance to DeLuna.

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In other words... they were both Hispanic males.
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So your argument is, since they look alike, then screw it, let's just kill one of them (we don't care if it's the innocent one or the guilty one), and declare case closed, and justice served.
 
danarhea said:
So your argument is, since they look alike, then screw it, let's just kill one of them and declare case closed.
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No, I am saying they don't look alike. As I said, I oppose the death penalty so I wouldn't support putting either to death. I am simply pointing out that the "proof" of innocence by the Columbia students, as spelled out, is grasping.

My point in all things is that while I support a given cause, I do not support poor arguments in favor of those causes. The DeLuna proof isn't actually proof at all, it is doubt.
 
jmotivator said:
No, I am saying they don't look alike. As I said, I oppose the death penalty so I wouldn't support putting either to death. I am simply pointing out that the "proof" of innocence by the Columbia students, as spelled out, is grasping.

My point in all things is that while I support a given cause, I do not support poor arguments in favor of those causes. The DeLuna proof isn't actually proof at all, it is doubt.
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Ah, OK. Reading is fundamental, so I'll go back to my remedial reading class. LOL.
 
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