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2019-12-10 Home Front: WoT

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appeals death sentence

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Posted by trailing wife 2019-12-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top
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#1 It's not nice to blow up your neighbors. Not a lawyer, but the fact that some of them are a bit miffed hardly seems like extenuating circumstances.

Posted by SteveS 2019-12-10 01:48|| 2019-12-10 01:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Some peoples' American Dream is a nightmare for America.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-10 02:03|| 2019-12-10 02:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Why is this thing not dead already?

I'm a little surprised that Zero didn't use this for a Sister Soldja moment.

Posted by AlanC 2019-12-10 07:03|| 2019-12-10 07:03|| Front Page Top

#4 If I was him, I would appeal it too. What do I have to lose?

Posted by BernardZ 2019-12-10 07:09|| 2019-12-10 07:09|| Front Page Top

The bloody 'fondue process'. I've never understood the rationale for allowing people caught in the act and sworn to fight to the death a fair trial.

Humanism shall be the death of humans.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-10 07:28|| 2019-12-10 07:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Too bad he didn't get run over like he did to his brother.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2019-12-10 07:54|| 2019-12-10 07:54|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ That would be Tamerlan, better known as 'Speed Bump' around these parts.

Posted by Raj 2019-12-10 08:11|| 2019-12-10 08:11|| Front Page Top

#8 There is a legal prohibition against "cruel and unusual" punishment.

Thought #1 - making him suffer thru all these (denied) appeals is cruel and unusual. Execute him now.

Thought #2. My legal quibblese dictionary indicates that the language allows punishments that are cruel but not unusual and those that are unusual but not cruel. Drawing and quartering has been in use for hundreds of years, if not recently - so it's not unusual.
The prohibition says nothing about how recent its use has to be to be considered unusual.

Posted by Mercutio 2019-12-10 08:52|| 2019-12-10 08:52|| Front Page Top

#9 Life sentence without appeal or parole - what's that work out to these days? Ten years with time off for good behavior?

Posted by KBK 2019-12-10 09:45|| 2019-12-10 09:45|| Front Page Top

#10 His victims didn't get to appeal theirs.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-12-10 11:23|| 2019-12-10 11:23|| Front Page Top

#11 Some punishments are cruel but not unusual.
Some punishments are not cruel but unusual.
Some punishments, like Goldilocks' porridge, are just right. Like Tsarnev's punishment.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2019-12-10 16:13|| 2019-12-10 16:13|| Front Page Top

#12 KBK, that's about it

Posted by chris 2019-12-10 18:12|| 2019-12-10 18:12|| Front Page Top

#13 Off with his head.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-12-10 19:00|| 2019-12-10 19:00|| Front Page Top

#14 The Founders who wrote that 'cruel and unusual' had no problem executing miscreants. Once again our ~~judiciary~~ aristocracy has taken it upon themselves to ignore Article V and amend the Constitution by fiat.

What they have done by their actions is to absolve themselves of the contract between the people and the state in which the state said it would render justice rather than the traditional vendetta used to render justice.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-10 19:25|| 2019-12-10 19:25|| Front Page Top

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