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Tsarnaev death expensive justice
We don't need to kill to make a point.



James Alan Fox 6:50 p.m. EDT May 15, 2015

After 10 grueling weeks of testimony, with over 100 witnesses taking the stand and over 700 exhibits being entered into the record, the long-anticipated verdict is finally in: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is to be executed for his part in murdering four victims (excluding his brother/accomplice) and injuring over 260 others.

In weighing the aggravating factors (the number of victims, including children, the murder of a police officer, and the terrorist motive) against the mitigating factors (the defendant's subservient role in the crimes, the science of brain development in youthful offenders and his troubled family history), the jury was unanimously convinced that the death penalty was the more appropriate sentence.

It may be that prosecutors and some of the victims are pleased, if not thrilled, with the outcome. For them, capital punishment is precisely designed for crimes like this.

But in the end, I wonder if the death sentence was worth all the time, effort, anguish and expense of the trial. Was reaching for the death penalty worth subjecting the 10 women and eight men, who were fulfilling their civic duty as jurors, to heart-wrenching testimony and disturbingly graphic exhibits that no doubt will impact them for years to come? We can add 18 more to the list of victims in this case.

The troubling fact is that none of this, neither the financial cost nor the emotional toll, was necessary. After all, the defense team, long before admitting their client's responsibility for the bombings on the very first day of trial, was willing to enter a guilty plea if the government agreed to take the death penalty off the table in favor of life without parole. Would that have been so bad?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...lumn/27383637/

As for the cost...well I'm sure this decision will be a lot cheaper than putting him in an air-conditioned prison, with cable, internet, gym equipment, and 3 square meals a day, for the rest of his life.

Actually it will be appealed automaticly and forced to drag thru the courts for YEARS. I would rather stick the SOB in Solitary Confinement ( for his own protection ) for the rest of his natural life.

For people who think martyrdom is the greatest thing one can accomplish in life, al-Qaida is acting a bit inconsistent on the whole death thing. Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been on death row for quite some time, but al-Qaida would like to keep him on life support indefiintely. According to CBS Boston:

The leader of al-Qaida has reportedly warned the United States of the “gravest consequences” if Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is executed.

According to multiple reports, Ayman al-Zawahri released a new video Friday making the threat.

Tsarnaev is specifically named in the video in which al-Zawahri threatens the U.S. if Tsarnaev or any other Muslim prisoners are executed, according to Reuters.

“Any other Muslim prisoners.” No, this has absolutely NOTHING to do with Islam.

So why are they interfering with Tsarnaev and his 72 virgins? Perhaps it has more to do with strategy than anything else.

Think about the prisoner swap we entertained in the past with the Taliban for Bowe Bergdahl. In that dealy, they got five prisoners from us who will most likely return to the battlefield and fight against us.

Zawahiri openly encourages the kidnapping of “as many Westerners as possible,” and that’s because he isn’t concerned about Tsarnaev and other Muslim’s fates in prison – he’s concerned about the possibility of losing future fighters and bargaining chips.

http://www.allenbwest.com/matt-palum...-threat-to-u-s