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The verdict is in for the Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and the jury has recommended a death sentence.
The jury only needed 14 hours to reach its verdict on the 17 counts where he could be sentenced to death, and found for the death penalty for six of those. The only other choice for sentencing on those charges would have been life in prison. The attack killed 3 people and injured 264 people. It was the worst attack on US soil since the attack on 9/11.
AlterNet reports:
Their only other option was life without the possibility of release in America's toughest "super-max" prison in Colorado, which some have dubbed the "Alcatraz of the Rockies".
[...] "'No remorse, no apology'. Those are the words of a terrorist convinced he has done the right thing", US assistant attorney Steven Mellin said.
[...] Judge George O'Toole will now formally sentence Tsarnaev at a hearing expected to be held later in the year.
[...] The verdict in the federal case came despite widespread local opposition to capital punishment in Massachusetts, a largely Democratic state that abolished the death penalty in 1947.
Prominent survivors, including the parents of the youngest victim Martin Richard, had also opposed the death penalty on the grounds that years of prospective appeals would dredge up their agony.
[...] Since the federal death penalty was reinstated in 1988, only 79 people have been sentenced to die and only three have been executed, says the Death Penalty Information Center. Three other death verdicts were turned into life sentences after new trials were granted.
(Score: 2) by Techwolf on Sunday May 17 2015, @03:19PM
Too bad it will cost more to kill this guy then to incarserate for life.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 17 2015, @04:29PM
Agreed. Killing as punishment for killing has no place in a civilized society. We should lobotomize humans keep him in prison for life.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 17 2015, @06:46PM
You must be a moron. Do some math. He should be punished to fit the crime, shove a bomb up his ass and light a slow fuse.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2015, @08:28AM
Many of the victims have lost limbs.
The punishment should be administered from least harmful to most. Eye for an eye.
First cuts with a knife for the cuts his bomb gave some.
Then an electric wood sander to his knees and elbows for those who were scraped.
Then cut off his fingers and toes for those who lost digits (up to the amount lost)
Then saw off his arms and legs progressivly, to the amount of limbs he had blown off: if he blew off 20 limbs, each of his limbs should be sawn into 4 parts: so for an arm that would be: wrist, then middle of forearm, then elbow, then middle of upper arm, then rest of the arm at sholder. Continue for each arm and leg.
If he blew off anyones genitals, cut his off. If he blew up 2 people genitals, cut his genitals in half, then cut the rest off.
If he blinded anyone, blind him.
After each cut the wound should be cauterized and the torture paused for 1 or 2 or 3 min.
He should be revived with smelling salts when able. Doctors should keep him alive through the whole procedure.
No anestetics.
Then return him alive to his mother as a torso and a head as a living reminder to all. Or kill him.
If anyone was burned, burn him.
Your thoughts? Why does this not happen?
What do russians think?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2015, @04:37PM
My thought is that you best never lecture Christians (or Jews) about the barbarity of their scriptures.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2015, @06:18PM
You sound as vicious and nasty as this bomber was. Why stoop to his level, be a better man. Retribution doesn't benefit anyone.