Defense admits Tsarnaev took part in Marathon bombings

[DonViejo]

Source: Boston Globe

By Milton J. Valencia, Patricia Wen, Kevin Cullen, John R. Ellement and Martin Finucane GLOBE STAFF MARCH 04, 2015

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s defense attorney acknowledged Wednesday that her client had participated in the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, an attack that shook the nation as it raised once again the specter of terrorism on American soil.

Judy Clarke said the bombings were “misguided acts” carried out by Tsarnaev and his late older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

“There’s little that we dispute. It was him,” she said.

She sought to shift blame to the older brother, saying he had “self-radicalized” and the younger brother had “followed him.”

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[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. So he was just following orders?

Well, it didn't use to work as an excuse, but it seems to be why we haven't seen a lot of people up on charges for torture, so maybe it's a defense that's back in vogue.

[underpants]

2. Heard on NPR this morning - just aiming at sentencing

They know they aren't going to get him off these charges they are just trying to avoid the death penalty.

[christx30]

4. I'd favor no death penalty for this

creep. Not because I'm 100% against capital punishment for crimes, but because this is a very young man that is going to spend the rest of his life in a cage. Worse case senario, in a year, he gets shanked in the showers over a pack of cigarettes. Best case senario, he dies at 60-something in the prison infirmary of some disease that would be easily treatable on the outside. He will never get married. He will never have children. Thirty years down the line, he's going to know that, while his heart still beats, his life is basically over. He will be a forgotten man. He'll get maybe a 30 second blurb on the nightly news when he passes.
I think life in prison would be more cruel for someone like him than putting a needle in his arm. And it's exactly what he deserves.

[uppityperson]

5. I've a question about one thing you wrote

"some disease that would be easily treatable on the outside". What do you mean?

[christx30]

6. I doubt prisoners get top of the line

oncologists. It's pretty much just enough health care to keep people from dying, but they don't go above and beyond.

[marble falls]

7. Prisoners do not get adequate medcal treatment for anything more than simple things.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Shifting the blame to the dead brother

I don't think the jury will fall for that. We'll see