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I don’t support the death penalty under any circumstance. Anything short of that is fine with me. I feel nothing but revulsion for this individual.
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A jury has reached a verdict in the federal death penalty trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv).
(Ghill-TEE ahz shitt)
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Spending 60+ years in prison is a punishment worse than death.
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Duh. Did anyone think for a moment that he was going to be found not guilty? Seriously.
The bigger question has always been the punishment. Not today’s story, but what comes next…
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Not guilty would have meant release, without protection, to the streets of Boston. Yikes.
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“Duh”?
And what’s your point (besides taking us all back to middle school)? Should the AP and TPM have ignored the news that the jury delivered verdict or taht it was 30 for 30 on the different counts???
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Agree.
Is it strange, though, and inconsistent that I was pleased when the police offed his older brother in a shootout?
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Our pro-life friends on the Right hate government, don’t trust it, and insist it can’t do anything right. And now they’re salivating at the prospect of seeing that same government kill someone on their behalf.
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I thought this guy killed his older brother by running him over with an SUV?
He did. The police were cuffing the older brother, and the younger brother came at them in the SUV. The police jumped aside, and the older brother was run over and killed by the younger.
EDITED: Cause of death was widely reported as multiple bullet wounds and blunt trauma from his bro’ running over him; a few weakly sourced reports also said there was shrapnel from the pressure cooker bomb they tried to lob at the cops.
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It was a forgone conclusion that he would be found guilty. How you get from that point to suggesting I’m saying that AP or TPM should have ignored the news is beyond me.
My comment was about the inevitability of the verdict, which was all but obvious. Nor did you see me saying that they never should have tried him as this was also necessary, particularly for the victims. The harder and more conflicting question has always been about what punishment should be levied against this young man. But whatever…Is that middle-school enough for you too? Too bad it irritates you, but that’s more your problem than mine.
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Life without parole in a super maximum prison is much worse than the death penalty. And it makes for one less martyr to recruit more of his kind.
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You could have raised your point without being so damned rude.
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I do support the death penalty in very select circumstances, but strangely, I do not here. I actually do have a very (very) small part of me that has some sympathy for Tsarnaev. Don’t get me wrong, prison for the rest of his life sounds good to me. But the defense was able to sell me on the charismatic older brother effectively forcing him into bad decisions. He still made those decisions, as an adult no less, but as we all know, the brain isn’t done developing by 19, and an older beloved sibling can easily talk someone into doing something profoundly stupid. I would have been all over the death penalty for his brother.
Reminds me of the DC Sniper case. The young man got life but the older got the death penalty. The jury accepted the brainwashing defense. If I were on the jury I think I would apply the same here.
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Were your feelings strange and inconsistent? Absolutely not. In that case, the police, FBI, etc., were doing their jobs properly; their lives were in imminent danger as was public safety. Dude got off easy, in my opinion. His little brother is the one who will carry the much heavier weight of their crimes.
Why aren’t conservatives starting a GoFundMe page for him?
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He killed some white people.
Yup. Let him rot forever with a steady stream of dicks up his sociopathic ass. Lesson to the rest.