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Now his lawyer gets chance to show he was only a murdering dupe
By adamg on Tue, 03/31/2015 - 8:23am
The prosecution rested yesterday after its final witness against Dzokhar Tsarnaev, a medical examiner, detailed what happened to Martin Richard. Now Tsarnaev's lawyers try to save his life by building a case that he was just a little puppy dog following his brother's lead.
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Prision
There is a enlightening article at the NYTimes about the prison where Tsarnaev will surely end up. Sure sounds worse then death.
I hope someone manages to give him a copy of this article so he can get a peak of what the next 40 years will entail if the jury makes the right decision and doesn't vote to execute him.
Prison is too good for him
TV, radio, books, periodicals, arts, crafts and exercise that none of his deceased victims will ever enjoy again. No way! He should go to the Supermax until the inevitable 20 years of appeals are heard. Then he should be put down.
You have no idea
No, they won't get to do those things any more. Killing him doesn't change that. Doesn't "even the score" because there's no score and even if there were, there's only one of him to kill. So, there's no point to killing him.
Furthermore, if his intent was to effect some statement or change in America through his actions, then isn't the ultimate punishment to subject him to the fact that America continues on without so much as a blip about him once he's in jail permanently? That his actions only served to land himself with a dead end situation and furthered none of his professed goals? Killing him actually justifies the delusion he is/was under that America was out to get him and his kind. We're better than that. He can die in jail after what will feel like an eternity to realize everything he did was useless, that he wasted his entire life.
Just so you know
The TV only get a couple of "channels" one of which is 24/7 christian religion. Radio is also limited, so no newest from Kanye or Beck. Printed material is what is limited to the approved donations to the library, so mostly junk. Arts & Crafts, only so much can be done with a white piece of paper and a black crayon.
He'll get to spend 23 hours a day in his "private" cell with a 4 inch wide window...perhaps as most of the levels are underground. When he "gets out" for that one hour it's within walls 20 feet high and if lucky enough to be there with others everyone gets their own steel cage.
No visitors or direct contact with the outside world is allowed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADX_Florence
That's about the only defense he has.
And it appears that there must not have been any information that he could give the government in return for taking the death penalty off the table.
Unless there are massive surprises, I think we all know how this trial will end.
Because...
...he and his brother were a couple of isolated nutjobs. No conspiracy, no partners in crime, no one to hand the government but the numbnuts who got him a gun or threw his backpack in the landfill or other stuff like that. He's got no one to unload this on.
Interesting aspect is just what sentence
The jury will get to choose between life in jail or death. In MA, you're likely to get more people that choose life in jail. However, given the prosecution's push for death, it may be enough to sway the jury to choose death instead. I think that will be the most interesting aspect of how the trial ends. Sure, he's guilty, but do we stand by our community's morals and put him in jail or do we allow his injury to us as a community draw out motivation for revenge in these jurors?
There's actually a very interesting take on something like this decision on fivethirtyeight.com and how Telltale Games makes video games that present these sorts of ethical dilemmas as well as telling you how everyone else who has played the game has chosen before you. It can sometimes make you question why you ethically chose one way or the other.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/if-you-didnt-kill-that-zombie-maybe-...
If O-FISH-L up there was to choose death and then be told that 85% of the rest of us chose life in jail...would he consider why he was in such a minority on what he had previously considered to be very open and shut (or would he double down on his resolution that those 85% are all liars/liberals/idiots)?
don't "martyr" him
put him in protective isolation in prison with no hope of parole until he dies of old age. and let him fade into obscurity, like the crazy serial killers who i don't know whether are still living or dead, because they hardly ever get media access.