Posted on 01/31/2014 4:11:28 PM PST by bkopto
Given the powerful grief and anger over the Boston Marathon bombing, Boston would seem to be a particularly hostile place for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to stand trial. But it might just be his best hope of escaping a death sentence.
Opposition to the death penalty runs deep in liberal Massachusetts. In a Boston Globe survey in September, 57 percent of Massachusetts residents polled favored life in prison for Tsarnaev, while 33 percent favored execution.
As Tsarnaev's lawyers weigh whether to attempt to move his trial out of town, away from those most deeply traumatized by the bombing, some legal experts say staying put might be a better strategy, even though emotions in the city are raw.
"I'd rather take my shot with the citizens of Massachusetts," said Christopher Dearborn, a professor at Boston's Suffolk Law School. "We're at the highest irony here: We're going to have a death penalty trial in a state where a majority of our citizens don't support the death penalty."
Federal prosecutors announced Thursday that they will seek the death penalty against Tsarnaev, 20, when he goes on trial in the bombing last April that killed three people and injured more than 260 at the crowded finish line of the race. No trial date has been set.
Massachusetts abolished its death penalty in 1984, and repeated attempts to reinstate it have failed in the Legislature. But Tsarnaev is being prosecuted under federal law.
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Obama sending him back to his parents in Russia would be a real stab in the back for Putin. So don’t be surprised.
Perfect observation, my FRiend.
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One with a voir dire selection held in Cambridge, MA.
> “The lib female jurors will probably not find him guilty of anything except being cute and try to slip him notes so they can hook up later. “
Most stupid post ever.
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To a closet liberal or Muzzie. That’s the way those types roll.
Never underestimate the idiocracy named taxachusetts.
Half its citizens are brain-dead.
No, I think the lib female jurors will respond to the fact that he blew the legs off a whole lot of young women. The perp did not endear himself to the feminists by doing that.
Hatred: “...not only may I, but I even ought to, hate what is contrary to the moral law. Furthermore one may without sin go so far in the detestation of wrongdoing as to wish that which for its perpetrator is a very well-defined evil, yet under another aspect is a much more signal good. For instance, it would be lawful to pray for the death of a perniciously active heresiarch with a view to putting a stop to his ravages among the Christian people.”
Well, he was so dreamy looking on the cover of the Rolling Stone. He can’t possibly be evil.
barf!
I suspected that this was the reason that Holder approved the death penalty. He thought it would make it more likely for Tsarnaev to get off altogether, because a liberal Massachusetts jury would be unlikely to want to find him guilty of something for which he could be sentenced to death.
Not to mention that they won’t find him guilty of anything anyway, because he’s a poor, persecuted, harassed little Muslim boy, brought here and supported by the US government just to humiliate him and disrespect him and give him a reason to go out and blow up a bunch of evil Americans having fun....
Could asking for the Death Penalty cause a Massachusetts jury to acquit? or at least split?
I heard that the Communist bookstore in Harvard square was celebrating Mao when the Tianamen Square massacre happened.
He lost his brother, is there no sympathy for a devil???
oh poor little boy, he is just misunderstood /sarc
MIght prejudice the jury...
Lord have mercy on this country.
I don't think that is going to happen. The majority of Americans deserve what they have wrought. I'm sad for my country, and *very* sad I will have to go down with the fools that have ruined it.
Salvation is always personal, not political. Bless you.
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