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Boston bomber Tsarnaev sentenced to death for 2013 attack

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Reuters said:
By Scott Malone, Richard Valdmanis and Elizabeth Barber

BOSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. jury on Friday sentenced Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for helping to carry out the 2013 attack that killed three people and injured 264 at the world-renowned race, taking 15 hours to reach a decision.
The federal jury chose death by lethal injection for Tsarnaev, 21, over its only other option: life in prison without possibility of release.
The same panel last month found the ethnic Chechen guilty of placing a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs at the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, as well as fatally shooting a policeman. The bombing was one of the highest-profile attacks on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001.

Boston bomber Tsarnaev sentenced to death for 2013 attack

So my guess is Sister Helen Prejean's testimony to play on the sentimental feelings of the jury didn't work as lethal injection will be in this bastards future. He'll be most likely transported to a supermax, spending 23 and 1/2 hours in his cell while his lawyer no doubt will start the grind of appeals. Hopefully within a relatively short decade and a half - he'll get the needle, assuming the laws don't change between now and then.
 
A logical and justifiable sentence.
 
Im sure the left feels he's a nice guy "deep down".

I say sleep tight sucker. I'd pay for the bullet if it was an option.

Let him rot for the rest of his life in prison, and yes I am against the DP.
 
I think it was an appropriate sentence.

I also think it's an exercise in futility that will cost the American taxpayers a ridiculous amount of $$ to deal with.
 
Let him rot for the rest of his life in prison, and yes I am against the DP.
You don't get it. No one "rots" in prison. They are pretty well taken care of for the most part. And if ever were allowed into general population, would be treated as a hero among the Islamic converts.
 
You don't get it. No one "rots" in prison. They are pretty well taken care of for the most part. And if ever were allowed into general population, would be treated as a hero among the Islamic converts.

Not in those Super Max prisons you have.
 
Not in those Super Max prisons you have.

I'm against the death penalty, but hopefully this will at least give the victims' families some closure when the sentence is finally carried out.
 
I'm not a huge fan of the death penalty, mostly it's the fear that innocent people are being executed. However if you're going to have one this would be an appropriate time to use it. Just wish it could be all wrapped up within a year, of course then innocents would have far less chance of escaping mistakes so it's really not an option.
 
I'm against the death penalty, but hopefully this will at least give the victims' families some closure when the sentence is finally carried out.

Closure is a term that only exists to mainly pretend it happens. Most often closure as you say does not happen.
 
Que the anti death penalty crowd now.


Not at all--especially since it was a GOP governor in Illinois who did away with the death penalty.

And then went to jail years later for bribes for licenses as Secretary of State.
The death of an all-white family of six from a Milwaukee suburb sealed that deal.

I support the legal systems of states--Massachusetts isn't known for its conservatism, is it ?
 
Closure is a term that only exists to mainly pretend it happens. Most often closure as you say does not happen.

having never been a survivor of a murder victim whose murderer was put to death, I can't really speak on that. I think as long as we're going to kill the guy though, I hope it at least brings the victims' families some peace, whether you call that closure, revenge, justice, or whatever.
 
The death penalty is barbaric. Hopefully, by the time his appeals are over, the death penalty will be abolished at the federal level.
 
The death penalty is barbaric. Hopefully, by the time his appeals are over, the death penalty will be abolished at the federal level.

Barbaric is blowing a child to bits as he watches a marathon. He knew he would be killing children and he did it anyway.

His sentence is far better than he deserves.
 
Good. When you're that much of a threat to the nation, you deserve to be put to death.
 
I'm for the cheapest option, and sadly, paying the 40K per year or whatever it is to keep him locked up is CHEAPER than what it's going to cost John Q. Public to get that needle into his arm.

Primary purpose of death penalty or locking someone up is to remove a threat to society. To that end, as far as I'm concerned, life in prison without possibility of parole is functionally the same as death via whatever means used at the time/place. From that point, for me, it's all about money, and which leaves the most on the table.
 
The death penalty is barbaric. Hopefully, by the time his appeals are over, the death penalty will be abolished at the federal level.

After 10s of millions of tax dollars wasted (wasted no matter what they decide IMO).

Had a woman and her boyfriend kill an entire familiy of 6 Christmas Eve here in 2007. Her parents, brother, sis in law, & young niece & nephew. (Her idea)

It cost $7 million before they ever got them to trial. His trial just ended and he was sentenced this week. Life in prison, no parole. Most of the $$ spent before trial was determining if they could and should go after the death penalty for either/both of them.

No matter what you think of the DP, the system is BROKEN.
 
I'm for the cheapest option, and sadly, paying the 40K per year or whatever it is to keep him locked up is CHEAPER than what it's going to cost John Q. Public to get that needle into his arm.

Primary purpose of death penalty or locking someone up is to remove a threat to society. To that end, as far as I'm concerned, life in prison without possibility of parole is functionally the same as death via whatever means used at the time/place. From that point, for me, it's all about money, and which leaves the most on the table.

The thing is there really is no such thing as life w/out possibility of parole. Someone may be sentenced to that but the parole board can always change it.
 
After 10s of millions of tax dollars wasted (wasted no matter what they decide IMO).

Had a woman and her boyfriend kill an entire familiy of 6 Christmas Eve here in 2007. Her parents, brother, sis in law, & young niece & nephew. (Her idea)

It cost $7 million before they ever got them to trial. His trial just ended and he was sentenced this week. Life in prison, no parole. Most of the $$ spent before trial was determining if they could and should go after the death penalty for either/both of them.

No matter what you think of the DP, the system is BROKEN.

I've done a great deal of reading on the history of our legal system in general, and I'm coming to the conclusion that the system ISN'T broken...it was never really working to begin with, it's just that there were so many less of us in ages past, that it was never really noticed.
 
The thing is there really is no such thing as life w/out possibility of parole. Someone may be sentenced to that but the parole board can always change it.

They make that decision with the same information presented to the jury at the time of the trial. Unless this parole board is staffed with a group of people who are dramatically different than those of the jury, they will come to the same conclusion as the jury did.



The real trick, of course, is to fix known issues within our court and appeals process to make 40K per year for the next 50 years be less money than 5-10 years of appeals process for the death penalty.
 
There really was little chance for some other outcome to this case.
 
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