Boston Marathon Bomber Sentenced to Death
“There is no joy here. There’s been so much death.” – Local Boston News
Jurors finally reached consensus in the sentencing of Boston Marathon Bomber Jahar Tsarnaev. Tsarnaev was sentenced to death.
According to the Associated Press:
BOSTON (AP) — A jury sentenced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death Friday for the Boston Marathon bombing, sweeping aside pleas that he was just a “kid” who fell under the influence of his fanatical older brother.
Tsarnaev, 21, stood with his hands folded upon learning his fate, decided after 14 hours of deliberations over three days in the nation’s most closely watched terrorism trial since the Oklahoma City bombing case two decades ago.
The decision sets the stage for what could be the nation’s first execution of a terrorist in the post-9/11 era, though the case is likely to go through years of appeals. The execution would be carried out by lethal injection.
The 12-member jury had to be unanimous for Tsarnaev to get the death penalty. Otherwise, he would have automatically received a sentence of life in prison without parole.
Three people were killed and more than 260 wounded when two pressure-cooker bombs packed with shrapnel exploded near the finish line on April 15, 2013.
Tsarnaev was convicted last month of all 30 federal charges against him, including use of a weapon of mass destruction and the killing of an MIT police officer during the Tsarnaev brothers’ getaway attempt. Seventeen of those charges carried the possibility of the death penalty.
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Our new Attorney General weighs in saying the, “ultimate penalty is a fitting punishment.”
AG Loretta Lynch statement on #Tsarnaev death sentence: "Ultimate penalty is a fitting punishment." pic.twitter.com/ErOOvCYzva
— Legal Times (@Legal_Times) May 15, 2015
From a reporter in the courtroom:
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Comments
I still think that the prosecutor made a complete and utter burro of herself by saying that the Joker wasn’t a good Muslim. What does Ms. Ortiz know of such things? It would be better for non-Muslims to keep silent on that sort of thing.
That is nothing more than pandering to the crowd who want to say that this wacko’s religious beliefs didn’t have a part in his decision to employee a weapon of mass distinction. You know the Islam is really the religion of peace crap.
I found it much more offensive that he allowed his defense team to try to place all the blame on his brother and say that he was just a poor follower, what a coward. Of course anyone who would bomb innocents is a coward anyway.
“A radical muslim is someone who wants to cut your head off for there own twisted beliefs.
A moderate muslim is someone who wants a radical muslim to cut your head off for their own twisted beliefs.”
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