Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev gets Death Penalty
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Inject him actually. Probably not for another five years or so. Thats how long McVeigh was on death row and he waived his appeals.
There's always the chance he'd escape to commit more mayhem- with the lethal injection that eventuality is generally precluded!
Thats still many years down the road. He doesnt stand a chance of getting out whether they execute him next year or in fifty years.
That was precisely what I meant, but I can understand it taking you some time to catch on.
It was succinctly stated in post # 21.
Sentenced to Death, Boston Marathon Bomber Could Live for Decades
Makes one wonder w.t.f. the use of even passing the sentence!
Makes one wonder w.t.f. the use of even passing the sentence!
The members of juries of Death Penalty cases in the U.S. are rigged by way of being 'Death Penalty Qualified'. In other words they do not represent any random cross section of society but include only those who fully support Capital Punishment.
This naturally tilts the process towards a specific type of hard line juridical mentality. In this case specifically, in Massachussets, it excludes roughly 2/3 of the electorate who oppose the Death Penalty from serving on the jury. So the outcome is no surprise.
As in all cases where the Death Penalty is applied, where it is not in the context of a society struggling for its survival.. it represents a victory for vengeance over justice. And as such, will do anything but make that society more secure.. likely just the opposite as it elicits a violent response.
And it certainly won't provide 'closure' (surely one of the most ambiguous and overused words in modern English).. as relatives will be drawn into interminable appeals and stays over the next 10 - 15 years.
I thought that Bill and Denise Richard's oped piece (certainly the most grievously affected, with a son killed and daughter losing a leg).. calling for a Life sentence was by far the most constructive (and classy) contribution to this whole process.
As such the jury capitulated to the blood lust of the mob in the street, howling for a lynching.
This naturally tilts the process towards a specific type of hard line juridical mentality. In this case specifically, in Massachussets, it excludes roughly 2/3 of the electorate who oppose the Death Penalty from serving on the jury. So the outcome is no surprise.
As in all cases where the Death Penalty is applied, where it is not in the context of a society struggling for its survival.. it represents a victory for vengeance over justice. And as such, will do anything but make that society more secure.. likely just the opposite as it elicits a violent response.
And it certainly won't provide 'closure' (surely one of the most ambiguous and overused words in modern English).. as relatives will be drawn into interminable appeals and stays over the next 10 - 15 years.
I thought that Bill and Denise Richard's oped piece (certainly the most grievously affected, with a son killed and daughter losing a leg).. calling for a Life sentence was by far the most constructive (and classy) contribution to this whole process.
As such the jury capitulated to the blood lust of the mob in the street, howling for a lynching.
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The gods forgive; it is within man's power to emulate the gods, but apparently, not in Massachusetts,