Discussion: Boston Bomber Apologizes To Victims And Survivors In First Public Address

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Please stop posting this murderer’s photo. He doesn’t deserve the publicity.

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I wonder how many dry runs it took.

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That looked like the emptiest apology ever. Kind of a dodging-the-death-penalty version of I’m sorry if anybody was offended.

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Uh, not all ‘publicity’ is positive.

Keeping his picture up and his body alive to regret his ignorant savagery for what remains of his life seems to me a lot more instructive and, um, what Jesus woulda done.

“He can’t possibly have had a soul to do such a horrible thing” i snow to be remedied by the state officially going all Hammurabi on ‘our’ behalf, killing the repentant defenseless. No way that the state killing him will make him some sort of martyr to the savagery of religious nonsense, nope, not at all.

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To me, there’s nothing but tragedy here. Tragedy of course because of all the people killed and maimed. And tragic too that anyone could be so blind and so ignorant to commit such an act. I’m not offended by the death penalty. He doesn’t deserve to live out his life in prison. At the same time, nothing good comes of putting him to death. This kid threw away his own life together with the lives of so many others. My only response to this can be grief for all concerned.

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It’s the parallel with the other 19 year old who’s now on a fast track to death row for reasons that are so similar despite being the opposite of each other that’s the real tragedy. It’s not at all impossible they could end up in adjoining cells on the federal death row in Terra Haute.

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I can’t speak for the friends and family members of the victims who may feel different, but as a member of our society, apology not accepted.