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2019-12-10 Home Front: WoT
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appeals death sentence
The poor, deserted lad still has nothing better to do than file motions while he waits to die.
[Jpost] This city's deepest wound - the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings that killed three and injured hundreds more - will be re-examined Thursday when lawyers for bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
...the pretty, ethnic-Chechen college boy from Dagestan who, with the older brother he subsequently ran over while fleeing police, used pressure cooker bombs to blow up the Boston Marathon in 2013. His divorced parents now live in Russia, having given up on the American dream. Oddly enough, the mosque the brothers frequented, the Islamic Society of Boston, was founded by Friend of the Clintons and Al Qaeda financier Abdurahman Alamoudi in 1981, and is a hotbed of jihadi sentiment and connctions to so many different jihadi groups and individuals the mind boggles....
seek to have his death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
 lifted because the jury pool was too traumatized to render a fair verdict.

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Posted by trailing wife 2019-12-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top
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#1 It's not nice to blow up your neighbors. Not a lawyer, but the fact that some of them are a bit miffed hardly seems like extenuating circumstances.
Posted by SteveS 2019-12-10 01:48||   2019-12-10 01:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Some peoples' American Dream is a nightmare for America.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-10 02:03||   2019-12-10 02:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Why is this thing not dead already?

I'm a little surprised that Zero didn't use this for a Sister Soldja moment.
Posted by AlanC 2019-12-10 07:03||   2019-12-10 07:03|| Front Page Top

#4 If I was him, I would appeal it too. What do I have to lose?
Posted by BernardZ 2019-12-10 07:09||   2019-12-10 07:09|| Front Page Top

#5 
The bloody 'fondue process'. I've never understood the rationale for allowing people caught in the act and sworn to fight to the death a fair trial.

Humanism shall be the death of humans.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-10 07:28||   2019-12-10 07:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Too bad he didn't get run over like he did to his brother.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2019-12-10 07:54||   2019-12-10 07:54|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ That would be Tamerlan, better known as 'Speed Bump' around these parts.
Posted by Raj 2019-12-10 08:11||   2019-12-10 08:11|| Front Page Top

#8 There is a legal prohibition against "cruel and unusual" punishment.

Thought #1 - making him suffer thru all these (denied) appeals is cruel and unusual. Execute him now.

Thought #2. My legal quibblese dictionary indicates that the language allows punishments that are cruel but not unusual and those that are unusual but not cruel. Drawing and quartering has been in use for hundreds of years, if not recently - so it's not unusual.
The prohibition says nothing about how recent its use has to be to be considered unusual.
Posted by Mercutio 2019-12-10 08:52||   2019-12-10 08:52|| Front Page Top

#9 Life sentence without appeal or parole - what's that work out to these days? Ten years with time off for good behavior?
Posted by KBK 2019-12-10 09:45||   2019-12-10 09:45|| Front Page Top

#10 His victims didn't get to appeal theirs.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-12-10 11:23||   2019-12-10 11:23|| Front Page Top

#11 Some punishments are cruel but not unusual.
Some punishments are not cruel but unusual.
Some punishments, like Goldilocks' porridge, are just right. Like Tsarnev's punishment.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2019-12-10 16:13||   2019-12-10 16:13|| Front Page Top

#12 KBK, that's about it
Posted by chris 2019-12-10 18:12||   2019-12-10 18:12|| Front Page Top

#13 Off with his head.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-12-10 19:00||   2019-12-10 19:00|| Front Page Top

#14 The Founders who wrote that 'cruel and unusual' had no problem executing miscreants. Once again our judiciary aristocracy has taken it upon themselves to ignore Article V and amend the Constitution by fiat.

What they have done by their actions is to absolve themselves of the contract between the people and the state in which the state said it would render justice rather than the traditional vendetta used to render justice.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-10 19:25||   2019-12-10 19:25|| Front Page Top

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