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Holder faces decision on whether to seek death penalty in Boston Marathon bombing case
StarTribune.com ^ | 1/29/14 | Pete Yost AP

Posted on 01/29/2014 2:40:43 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo

As attorney general, Eric Holder has approved pursuing the death penalty in at least 34 criminal cases, upholding a long-ago pledge to Congress that he would vigorously enforce federal law even though he's not a proponent of capital punishment.

With a court-ordered deadline of Friday, Holder will make the most high-profile death penalty decision of his career in law enforcement: whether to seek capital punishment in the case of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the defendant in the Boston Marathon bombings last April that killed three people and injured 260.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bomber; boston; holder
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Ladies and Gentlemen...Place your bets!
1 posted on 01/29/2014 2:40:43 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

How about an investigation of

1) Why THEY did not need passports.

2) Why DHS and DO”J” ignored warnings from Russia.

and

3) Why the Saudi (Osama’s son) was with them
AND then was protected and escorted OUT by
the First Lady.


2 posted on 01/29/2014 2:44:15 PM PST by Diogenesis
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Holder will coward out!


3 posted on 01/29/2014 2:45:53 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: SandRat

That’s where my money is!


4 posted on 01/29/2014 2:47:11 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Support Free Republic!!!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

How about, why is this even a decision???
He should have been hanged months ago.


6 posted on 01/29/2014 2:50:53 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Why does the question even exist?

He's a Muzzie....Ain't gonna happen.

Hell...if we gave Osama a Muslim burial, why would we even think of another.

7 posted on 01/29/2014 2:52:46 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Holder will set this up so no death penalty and the kit will get off in a few years.


8 posted on 01/29/2014 2:54:10 PM PST by Logical me
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I bet that he does not seek the death penalty.

After all, can’t upset the boss’s buddies!


9 posted on 01/29/2014 2:56:53 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

im putting my money and The Farm on Holder’s getting obama to PARDON the perp!


10 posted on 01/29/2014 3:04:08 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

How could they put him on trial for workplace violence that isn’t anyone’s fault?


11 posted on 01/29/2014 3:09:34 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Goodness ,,, this is a tough one. What to do, what to do?


12 posted on 01/29/2014 3:14:10 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

My bet is that he has to think about this for a few more years.


13 posted on 01/29/2014 3:14:55 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: DesertRhino

Goodness has nothing to do with it!

;-)


14 posted on 01/29/2014 3:16:22 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Support Free Republic!!!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Execute the kid! Send him to his virgins.
15 posted on 01/29/2014 3:39:11 PM PST by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Since he is not a white, southern, CCW permit holding republican he will ask for life.......since he’s not an unborn child!!!


16 posted on 01/29/2014 4:37:52 PM PST by ontap
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Well, the perp was white, so Eric the Red will fry him.


17 posted on 01/29/2014 4:46:44 PM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Boston strong.

Holder weak.


18 posted on 01/29/2014 6:29:01 PM PST by Flick Lives (Got a problem with the government? Have a complaint. Get a free IRS audit!)
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death penalty?? he wants to defend him..


19 posted on 01/29/2014 6:29:51 PM PST by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: newnhdad

The dude become a citizen on 9-11 od 2012. This was murder and treason. Execute him. You know damn well our forefathers would have done it right.


20 posted on 01/29/2014 9:36:58 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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