Boston Bombing: Tsarnaev Trial Thread

[indyblue]

GOOD!

May he fry, hang or be put to perma-sleep for good. Personally I think the punishment should fit/mimic the crime, in this case he should be placed next to an explosive charge and it be detonated just like his victims were.

Our society has become far too lenient/humane to animals like this.

 

[jamil]

In 6-3 ruling, court reinstates death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber - SCOTUSblog

Nearly nine years after bombings near the finish line of the Boston Marathon killed three people and badly injured hundreds more, the Supreme Court on Friday reinstated the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was convicted for his role in the 2013 attacks. By a vote of 6-3, the justices reverse

www.scotusblog.com

I'm not usually a proponent of the death penalty. Not because I disagree with the justice of a life for a life, but that I have low confidence in our justice system to get it right. And when it comes to paying the ultimate price, they better get that one right. Better to let a murderer escape the death penalty than to kill an innocent. But this one is a slam dunk. Tsarnaev did it and he should pay that price for it.

 

[jwamplerusa]

Rope, switch, facing 7 with 6, or a blade. Any will do, it just needs to happen fast.

 

[Cameramonkey]

 

[DadSmith]

I thought i heard they released one of these bombers is that true?

 

[BigRed]

I'm not usually a proponent of the death penalty. Not because I disagree with the justice of a life for a life, but that I have low confidence in our justice system to get it right. And when it comes to paying the ultimate price, they better get that one right. Better to let a murderer escape the death penalty than to kill an innocent. But this one is a slam dunk. Tsarnaev did it and he should pay that price for it.

I appreciate the position.

It is just part of why, in any matter, the better result is that in which an aggressor is dispatched by its intended victim during commission its attack.

 

[KellyinAvon]

I thought i heard they released one of these bombers is that true?

One is dead, the other in prison.

 

[KG1]

One is dead, the other in prison.

Yeah his older brother got killed.

 

[churchmouse]

In 6-3 ruling, court reinstates death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber - SCOTUSblog

Nearly nine years after bombings near the finish line of the Boston Marathon killed three people and badly injured hundreds more, the Supreme Court on Friday reinstated the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was convicted for his role in the 2013 attacks. By a vote of 6-3, the justices reverse

www.scotusblog.com

How could he not be put down. Seriously how...???

 

[Tombs]

I'm not usually a proponent of the death penalty. Not because I disagree with the justice of a life for a life, but that I have low confidence in our justice system to get it right. And when it comes to paying the ultimate price, they better get that one right. Better to let a murderer escape the death penalty than to kill an innocent. But this one is a slam dunk. Tsarnaev did it and he should pay that price for it.

I have an ethical qualm with the death penalty. Not because it's killing someone, but because it's putting people with nothing to lose behind bars for years before rolling them out for some super sterile method of execution.

It'd be more ethical to sentence these people to gladiatorial combat, with the potential of winning a life sentence. At least they're giving something back to society in the process, through entertainment.
Or just drag them out behind the court house afterwards and put a bullet in their head.

It seems like a lot of potential value being thrown down the drain because of modest views on criminal punishment.

 

[actaeon277]

I'm not usually a proponent of the death penalty. Not because I disagree with the justice of a life for a life, but that I have low confidence in our justice system to get it right. And when it comes to paying the ultimate price, they better get that one right. Better to let a murderer escape the death penalty than to kill an innocent. But this one is a slam dunk. Tsarnaev did it and he should pay that price for it.

I agree.

 

[KLB]

I'm not usually a proponent of the death penalty. Not because I disagree with the justice of a life for a life, but that I have low confidence in our justice system to get it right. And when it comes to paying the ultimate price, they better get that one right. Better to let a murderer escape the death penalty than to kill an innocent. But this one is a slam dunk. Tsarnaev did it and he should pay that price for it.

My thoughts pretty much exactly. When there is no doubt and the crime is that bad, it is appropriate. Gacy, Dahmer, and this guy are examples that come to mind.

 

[74 or more]

Yes ,,the wife was not charged and got off free .

 

[Ark]

In 6-3 ruling, court reinstates death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber - SCOTUSblog

Nearly nine years after bombings near the finish line of the Boston Marathon killed three people and badly injured hundreds more, the Supreme Court on Friday reinstated the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was convicted for his role in the 2013 attacks. By a vote of 6-3, the justices reverse

www.scotusblog.com

"A jury convicted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on all counts and sentenced him to death. But the 1st Circuit threw out his death sentences. It ruled that the trial judge should have asked all potential jurors what media coverage they had seen or heard about Tsarnaev’s case. It also held that the judge, during the sentencing phase of the trial, should not have excluded evidence that Tamerlan was involved in a separate, unsolved triple murder in 2011. Especially when Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers argued that he had been swayed by his brother to commit the crimes, the court of appeals said, the evidence of Tamerlan’s possible involvement in the 2011 triple murder was “highly probative of Tamerlan’s ability to influence his brother.”"

I don't know how I missed when that initially happened but that is a ludicrous ruling. That is beyond grasping at straws.