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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.
Que the anti death penalty crowd now.
Que the anti death penalty crowd now.
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.
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.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.
Totally hear the hoof beats of a lot of high horses headed this way.
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.
Que the anti death penalty crowd now.
Closure is a term that only exists to mainly pretend it happens. Most often closure as you say does not happen.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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