Posted on 04/21/2015 3:14:59 PM PDT by jazusamo
BOSTON (AP) — First, the jury was shown large, vibrant pictures of the four people killed in the Boston Marathon bombing and its aftermath. Then prosecutors pulled out the photo they saved for last: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev giving the finger to the security camera in his jail cell.
“This is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — unconcerned, unrepentant and unchanged,” federal prosecutor Nadine Pellegrini told the jury that will decide whether the 21-year-old former college student should be executed.
The penalty phase in the Boston Marathon bomber’s trial opened in dramatic fashion Tuesday, with prosecutors portraying Tsarnaev as a coldblooded killer and “America’s worst nightmare.”
The government then began trying to drive home the horror of the attack in heartbreaking detail by calling to the stand what is expected to be a long line of witnesses who lost legs or loved ones in the April 15, 2013, bombing.
“I remember hearing just bloodcurdling screams. I just remember looking around, just seeing blood everywhere, sort of like debris falling from the sky,” said Celeste Corcoran, who made her way to the witness stand on two artificial limbs.
She told the jury that the blast hurled her into the air and left her in such excruciating pain that she wanted to die.
William Campbell III, whose 29-year-old sister, Krystle Campbell, died in the bombing, testified that because of a case of mistaken identity, a nurse initially told the family that the young woman was in surgery and would survive. Hours later, they learned from a homicide detective that Krystle had died almost instantly.
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It’s just a bit of a rant I had in my head this morning when I heard that Joker he was pictured flipping off the prison camera, and the reporter further remarked that Joker had not expressed any remorse for his deeds.
I am at a loss at how or why anyone would expect such a creature to show remorse for their deeds. He obviously meant to do it, and he would obviously do it again if given the chance.
I don’t understand why people are seeking an expression of remorse, and a further don’t understand why this photo is being shown as evidence that he has no remorse.
I can’t get my head around that.
It’s time to send him on. Give him one appeal, after that, do him.
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You hoping?
Yep, just do him.
So the LEOs are going to round up all the other America hating towelheads and deport them, right?
I’m normally ambivalent about the death penalty but in this case I think it’s required.
As long as he’s alive, Americans abroad will be in danger of becoming trade bait.
Any jury that does not give him the death penalty....
....should get the death penalty.
That’s harsh but I understand completely.
The terrorist scums Mommy said after the verdict that America will pay for putting her baby in prison, and how much she hates America blaa blaa blaa..but no comment on her stealing clothing from stores and collecting welfare and food stamps..gee typical Muslim scum bags, hate our country but love our clothes and cash..just take this guy, put him in the town square, put a pressure cooker near him and blow his ass up
I was surprised when the jury found him guilty; anything more is just icing on the cake.
Agreed, I feared there’d be at least one holdout, hopefully they come through again.
I’m hoping he spends the rest of his life incarcerated. With Aaron Hetrnandez for a roommate.
With this trial and the Hernandez trial taking place simultaneously, it’s been a bit of a roller coaster ride here.
An eye for an eye I say.
In broad terms, I'm not a death penalty supporter, either.
But I agree with your assessment completely. Letting him live will endanger more Americans. He has to die.
Appeal?...no
do him...yes, as soon as our justice allows. I hope it won't be 20-30 years as our money is spent on this asshole. (yeah, I said it)
FMCDH(BITS)
Justice delayed is justice denied.
He should have been tried and executed by the summer of 2013. Why does the ponderous US legal system need 2-3 years to complete a trial?
Attorneys get paid by billable hours.
So that pretty much explains it.
Exactly! Anything an attorney can come up with, legitimate or not gets another hearing and added to the many appeals explains murderous savages being on death row for 15, 20 years or more.
That's not justice in my view.
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