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Appeals court vacates Boston Marathon bomber's death sentence, orders new penalty trial

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Appeals court vacates Boston Marathon bomber's death sentence, orders new penalty trial



I have no problem with redoing the penalty-phase with a change of venue. The facts will speak for themselves no matter where the hearing is held.

That said, spending the rest of his miserable life at Flo-Max is no bargain. Many consider it a sentence worse than death.
 
I don't have a problem with doing it again, if it wasn't done right the first time. I know he's trying everything possible to avoid execution and I hope he doesn't get the satisfaction of a "win".
 

This is a totally stupid ruling. The judges don’t like the death penalty and should be impeached for disloyalty to the constitution.

Their reasoning is illogical. If the venue and jury showed such unconscionable bias then convictions should be overturned not sentence. If the conviction is just and congress authorized the death penalty then the sentence Is just. Judicial activism
 
The politics of Tsarnaev's sentence or the death penalty in general aside for just a moment, I am unsure the appeals court made the right choice.

The argument was venue for the penalty-phase, as if some other venue might not have been so severe with a sentence because of perceived level of city, area, personal opinion, whatever other impact.

The judges themselves mentioned their own error suggesting hearing about this or seeing coverage of the event made it national.

Seems to me this was political motivation absent legal proceeding fault.
 
The Boston Bombing set the standard for false flag operations in one way.

Similar to Covid, the entire city of Boston was locked down for a wounded teenager with a pistol. How absurd, but how valuable an exercise for those who manipulate the public perceptions.
 

There was no "false flag"
 

This isn't the DERP subforum. Tinfoil town is thataways --->
 
The worst of the worst in America's vast prison network are delivered to ADX, the "Alcatraz of the Rockies," in buses, special vehicles, even Black Hawk helicopters.Heavily armed patrols cruise the sprawling complex. A dozen imposing gun towers rise above squat brick buildings. Walls topped with razor wire partially block the snow-capped mountains. "As soon as they come through the door ... you see it in their faces," former ADX warden Robert Hood said. "That's when it really hits you. You're looking at the beauty of the Rocky Mountains in the backdrop. When you get inside, that is the last time you will ever see it."

"The Supermax is life after death," said Hood, who served as ADX warden from 2002 to 2005. "It's long term. ... In my opinion, it's far much worse than death."

Many of the more than 400 inmates spend as much as 23 hours a day alone in 7-by-12-foot concrete cells. Meals are slid through small holes in the doors. Bed is a concrete slab dressed with a thin mattress and blankets. A single window about 42 inches high and 4 inches wide allows some natural light but is made so prisoners cannot see beyond the building. Cells have unmovable stools and desks made of concrete. Solid walls prevent prisoners from seeing other cells or having direct contact with other inmates. "The architecture of the building is the control," Hood said.
"You're designing it so the inmates can't see the sky. Intentionally. You're putting up wires so helicopters can't land." Inmates have little contact outside of guards and prison staff. They must wear leg irons, handcuffs and stomach chains when taken outside their cells -- and be escorted by guards. A recreation hour is allowed in an outdoor cage slightly larger than the prison cells. Inside the cage, only the sky is visible.

What's life like in Supermax prison? - CNN






Or another one.

SULLIVAN: Yeah, and what's interesting is that they - this is the world that they see 24 hours a day. Even in the psychiatric ward, there's very little time for them to be allowed for that, even that prerequisite hour and a half outside. This facility in Pelican Bay, you have to picture spokes on a wheel, and in the center of the spoke is a correctional officer who sits behind computers and runs the system with buttons, and he's behind glass.And then down the spokes are just cell after cell after cell, and the inmates are in these eight-by-eight-foot-long cells, just - it's all concrete, a stainless steel desk and a chair, and there's very little else in these cells. And the officer will then push a button and allow the inmate out for the hour and a half, what they call outside.

Outside is a large concrete box, you could probably fit maybe two cars in it, and it has 20-foot walls, and on the top is a grate. And so if you look straight up, you can see the sky. Maybe if it was high noon, you might get a glimpse of the sun, but really outside there's no balls or anything to do. And then the officer will allow - press the button. You will walk back into your cell, and that's that. And you will not speak with the officer, you're not going to interact with anybody. You're going to pass by the other cells, but the doors are made of solid steel, and they have nickel-sized holes in them. So you can really just maybe see the eyes or some figures behind the wall, but you're not interacting with other inmates, you're not interacting with the officers. And then three times a day somebody comes by and slides a food tray through the slot in the door. You don't really talk to that person. And most of the people that - I spoke to dozens of the people that were at Pelican Bay, and they hadn't spoke to anybody outside this very narrow space in years, let alone touched anybody.

The Grim Realities Of Life In Supermax Prisons : NPR





I'd think death a release, but apparently the survival instinct is stronger. . .
 
Thoreau72 said:
Not for you Maus, no.

For those not wearing your rose-colored glasses, it's very different.
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You were asked for your EVIDENCE of false flags a thousand times.*

And you presented a whole lot of nothing.

The surviving brother ADMITTED to it as well.





* Slight hyperbole
 
Fledermaus said:
You were asked for your EVIDENCE of false flags a thousand times.*

And you presented a whole lot of nothing.

The surviving brother ADMITTED to it as well.





* Slight hyperbole
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FF is a concept above your pay grade. :mrgreen:
 
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