DOJ to seek death penalty once again for Boston Marathon bomber

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: CBS News

The Justice Department plans to once again ask for the death penalty in the case of of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man convicted of 30 counts in connection with the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. The bombing killed three people and wounded hundreds.

This decision comes after a federal appeals court in Massachusetts overturned Tsarnaev's death sentence last month. The panel found that there was reason to believe that the presiding judge at trial did not sufficiently vet the jurors, pointing out social media posts by two of them. The panel wondered why the judge did not question the jurors when the posts were made public. The individual who became the jury foreperson retweeted a post calling Tsarnaev a "piece of garbage."

In an interview with the Associated Press on Thursday, Attorney General William Barr indicated his department would appeal the ruling. "We will do whatever's necessary," Barr told the AP. "We will take it up to the Supreme Court and we will continue to pursue the death penalty."

U.S. Attorney Andrew E. Lelling issued a statement later Thursday night, backing the appeal and describing Tsarnev as "an ideologically driven mass killer."



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[Cirque du So-What]

1. I'm opposed to capital punishment in all cases

and the great expenditure of time and resources toward extracting an additional pound of flesh is just one of the reasons I remain opposed.

[IrishEyes]

2. I wonder if they are trying to make the death penalty a popular topic of conversation

More people support the death penalty than are opposed. I believe it was 54% for the death penalty in 2016. I see republicans trying to make it a popular political issue to try to get more votes.

Personally, I believe that the death penalty should be abolished.

[LiberalLovinLug]

5. Bingo

They are throwing mud at a lot of walls right now in desperation.

They are poking. Setting up the anti-death penalty advocates, who overwhelmingly reside in the Democratic party, to vocalize their opposition to this.

Then they can use that to say how Democrats are soft on terrorists. Soft on the killer of Boston citizens.

[ArizonaLib]

3. Does he need to be dead?

How much more money and damage to society/culture are we spending to kill him? His life is not worth it. We have the ability to lock him up for life, to prevent any further murders at a financial lower cost.

[marble falls]

4. I am opposed to the death penalty in all circumstances.

[christx30]

6. I agree fully.

He is already dead to the world. He’s in a stone box for the rest of his life. He’ll never have kids. He’ll never travel. He will never breathe free air again. Nothing wrong with keeping him in that box until he either goes crazy or kills himself or dies of something else.
Let the world forget about him. He’s already dead. Don’t waste the needle.

[iscooterliberally]

7. The Death Penalty serves vengeance not justice.

It would be less costly to just keep him behind bars for life.