United States v. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

[BoSoxGal]

Massachusetts is anti-death penalty by a wide margin, so many folks will be struck from the jury panel immediately on those grounds, raising just one of many appellate issues that will drag this case out for years.

Why must the United States Attorney for Massachusetts seek the death penalty against the majority will of the people who were victimized?



from: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/0 ... story.html

Apparently, Tsarnaev was ready to plead guilty and be sentenced to life without possibility of parole, and waiving all appeals. The whole thing would be done without the grandstanding and he could have gone into a hole to live out his life, available to BHU types as they study the phenomenon of radicalization of youth to terroristic objectives.

Instead, we'll spend a fortune to pursue his death, against the will of his victims.

This proceeding doesn't serve me as a citizen. Does it serve you?

Some good pieces:

http://cognoscenti.wbur.org/2015/01/05/ ... ue-process

http://cognoscenti.wbur.org/2014/05/09/ ... dershowitz

[Gob]

Set him free, as long as he agrees to wear a"I am the Boston bomber" t-shirt for the rest of his life. (However long that may be.)

[dgs49]

Regardless of who ends up on that jury, he will never, ever be executed. One of the most pointless and expensive prosecutions ever.