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Duplicate with additive comments - Boston Bomber Has Death Sentence Overturned By Appeals Court
2020-08-01
[Red State] An appeals court has overturned the death sentence of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhorkhar Tsarnaev in a shocking decision that reopens a deep wound at a time when America can barely afford more tragedy.
All of this coming as absolutely no surprise. It was so very long ago. Memory hole rules must surely apply.
Tsarnaev and his brother killed two people and wounded over 250 more in a bomb attack at the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 2013. An intense city-wide manhunt led to the capture and eventual conviction of Tsarnaev after Boston police discovered him wounded and hiding in a boat stored at a Boston residence. His brother was killed in a shootout with police.

The overturning of the sentence does not necessarily mean the Islamic terrorist will not ever face the death penalty. The appeals court upheld all the convictions but another trial will be needed to determine the validity of a death sentence.
Posted by:Besoeker

#13  Whitey Bolger was Keyser Söze
Posted by: Slaigum Threrelet6554   2020-08-01 15:31  

#12  Boston FBI has been a sinkhole of corruption & incompetence since the days of Mueller and Whitey Bolger & Co.

Fun fact - one of my clients went to grade school with Zip Connolly. He ran into Whitey Bulger once; it was an unsettling experience to say the least.
Posted by: Raj   2020-08-01 14:43  

#11  Does this mean the appeals court overturned the deaths and injuries of their victims?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2020-08-01 13:23  

#10  Boston FBI has been a sinkhole of corruption & incompetence since the days of Mueller and Whitey Bolger & Co.
Posted by: Slaigum Threrelet6554   2020-08-01 12:24  

#9  Katharine Russell in the Rantburg archives

Daily Mail: Has Katherine Russell remarried and had a baby? Claims made by sister of Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, according to report
Katherine Russell, 25, has remarried and had a baby with her new husband, her late husband's sister Aliana has told the New York Post
She was married to Tamerlan Tsarnaev at the time of the Boston Marathon bombings, which killed three people and injured 260 more in April 2013
He was killed in a getaway attempt a few days later
It was previously reported that Russell had moved to New Jersey to be with her former husband's sisters
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-08-01 08:27  

#8  Don't worry. Should this end up somehow at the Supreme Court, Roberts will take care of it once and for all. /sarc

Posted by: Clem   2020-08-01 08:21  

#7   Tamerlan Tsarnaev: Terrorist. Murderer. Federal Informant?

No. The FBI tried to get him to inform, but he scornfully told everyone about as he planned the bombing. The FBI didn’t notice, as I recall — the articles are somewhere in the Rantburg archives.

I think Tamerlan’s wife went back to her parents —though I may be remembering the wife of a different mass-murdering jihadi. The parents divorced and went back separately to the olde countrie. There was also a sister and an uncle who were pretty well assimilated — I’ve no idea what happened to them
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-08-01 08:00  

#6  Frankie - I was referring mainly to the hack judges who found a 'technicality' on which to vacate the death sentence, and the judges who put those men through the ringer for the crime of supporting Trump.
Posted by: Raj   2020-08-01 07:45  

#5  And then there was Tamerlan Tsarnaev's wife, Kathern Russell who was forced to stumble over fireworks and bomb making pressure cookers in the cramped apartment. She dutifully suffered in silence of course. Where has she disappeared to, or should I ask ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-08-01 07:34  

#4  a convicted terrorist? Go ahead, Raj
Posted by: Frank G   2020-08-01 07:31  

#3  I'd add in one additional remedy but the mods always tell us not to wish death on our fellow citizens; problem is, I don't feel they are our fellow citizens at this point.
Posted by: Raj   2020-08-01 07:25  

#2  The photograph in the graphic is slowly sliding into the Google memory hole. I can't imagine why.

Boston Magazine-City Life: Tamerlan Tsarnaev: Terrorist. Murderer. Federal Informant?
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-08-01 07:25  

#1   ...in a shocking decision

I'm no longer shocked at the complete corruption of our Federal government. When this piece of shit gets a better legal shake than Gen. Flynn, Roger Stone, George Papadopulous, Carter Page, etc., it's well past time to fire every fucking one of them and start from scratch.
Posted by: Raj   2020-08-01 07:23  

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