Death by lethal injection for killing Martin Richard and Lingzi Lu, but found he didn't deserve death for the murder of Krystle Campbell and MIT officer Sean Collier.
WBUR has more details.
Statement by Mayor Walsh:
I want to thank the jurors and the judiciary for their service to our community and our country. I hope this verdict provides a small amount of closure to the survivors, families, and all impacted by the violent and tragic events surrounding the 2013 Boston Marathon. We will forever remember and honor those who lost their lives and were affected by those senseless acts of violence on our City. Today, more than ever, we know that Boston is a City of hope, strength and resilience, that can overcome any challenge
Statement by Dic Donohue:
Just over two years after the events that impacted us as a community and a nation, we can finally close this chapter in our lives. The verdict, undoubtedly a difficult decision for the jury, gives me relief and closure as well as the ability to keep moving forward
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By kernelPanic
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 3:27pm
Lots of "yes" answers to the aggravating charges. Feels like this is leading up to a 'yes' on the death penalty. This is oddly riveting as the actual punishment seems to get announced last
and death it is
By kernelPanic
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 3:30pm
and I'm OK with it. Although the practical person inside me knows it would be cheaper to lock him in a cell forever.
To be forgotten...
By MatthewC
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:43pm
...in a "cleaner version of hell", as ADX Florence has been described, just like every other terrorist and dangerous criminal who is sent there. I'd rather see him live for the rest of his life in hell on Earth in a tiny cell with nothing to occupy his mind than to give him any more notoriety.
So it's torture then? I hear
By Anon E. Mouse
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 6:57pm
So it's torture then? I hear there might be a job opening at Gitmo.
Alive there's always the chance of release:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdelbaset_al-Megrahi
What's your angle?
By MatthewC
Sat, 05/16/2015 - 12:41am
Are you anti-death penalty or anti-prison? Being alone 24/7 isn't in and of itself "torture". A strong person could survive.
In order to be placed on
By anon
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 6:31pm
Death Row, you have to be inconclusively found guilty. I know we have innocent people behind bars, but not on death row.
The process should be streamlined.
Inconclusive guilt?
By Felicity
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 9:37pm
Was that a Freudian slip? We have plenty of innocent people on death row. Check out Barry Scheck and the Innocence Project. Read about Pat Quinn.
The death penalty, imho, smacks of hypocrisy.
By mplo
Sat, 05/16/2015 - 10:15am
To quote an accurate quote:
Also, being webcast on WCVB
By Dot net
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 3:28pm
http://www.wcvb.com/news/newscenter-5-breaking-new...
They will show split screen of judge announcing jury verdict on penalty and Tsarnaev's reaction.
Federal trials are not
By Rob Not Verified
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 3:48pm
Federal trials are not broadcast
I apologize. I should clarify
By Dot net
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:01pm
I apologize. I should clarify that was what the victims' families were going to be seeing,as well as other courtroom observers. We get the clerk's reading instead.
They deliberated only 13 hours....
By moxie
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 3:29pm
That's not good for the toussle-haired youth.
Disgusting
By datadyne007
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 3:41pm
State-sanctioned killing is more akin to totalitarian regimes, than the United States of America. This is a sad day. Now we get years upon years of appeals and the families of the injured and lost have to endure these memories OVER and OVER again. The nightmare that these families have been enduring is only beginning instead of ending, as would have happened if we locked him up and threw away the key. Disgusting. It's time to abolish the death penalty.
Well really
By Scumquistador
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 3:45pm
locking somebody up for what could be a half dozen or more decades doesnt seem to be humane either
A supermax has a bed, food,
By datadyne007
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:24pm
A supermax has a bed, toilet, food, water, a window, & 1 hr of rec time. Most importantly he has his LIFE. It is humane punishment. No one has the right to take a life away from another, including the State.
he would be alive
By Scumquistador
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 3:56pm
but that is not a life, nor is it humane
you might consider doing some research on what affect harsh sentences have on crime prevention/preventing recidivism
Look I totally support
By datadyne007
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:06pm
Look I totally support sentencing reform for most crimes. We lock up way too many people. This is an extreme case and a case where I believe that the prison system IS the right solution. You mention "preventing recidivism" but if he's sentenced to life, he's not going to get out... He's not going to have an opportunity to do this crime again, or any crime.
true
By Scumquistador
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:09pm
no crimes have ever been committed in jail
You do realize where he was
By datadyne007
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:17pm
You do realize where he was going right? It's not your average jail. It's a top level supermax. The shower is in his room. It's not like he can shank someone in the shower.
Yeah.
By anonamonster
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:03pm
Yeah, it's like a regular Four Seasons according to this jabroni.
The bed is made out of concrete, the "window" is about a four inch slit offering zero view of anything worthwhile, and you get one hour of rec time by yourself in a cement cage.
Then its back into solitary for another 23 hours.
I'll wager a guess the food sucks.
And that is considred humane to you? Lock someone in a hole and forget about them for 60 years is humane?
What do you believe should
By datadyne007
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:07pm
What do you believe should happen to him then? Serious question.
Honestly?
By anonamonster
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:11pm
He should be hung in the town square at day break.
trial by combat
By Scumquistador
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:13pm
he can fight aaron hernandez. winner gets to play for the oakland raiders.
this ensures that each party is still punished for their crimes.
Just like in Iran...
By MatthewC
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:45pm
They're the shining example of justice, aren't they?
You know who else liked
By Kinopio
Sat, 05/16/2015 - 12:55am
You know who else liked executing people in town square? Nuts who treated black people as slaves and didn't allow women to vote. Try to evolve past the 1600's.
Spend a lot of time in the can?
By Brian Riccio
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:18pm
Particularly a Supermax? It's designed for only one purpose: to drive it's inmates insane. No hope of rehabilitation.
Wrong
By dmcboston
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 6:03pm
"No one has the right to take a life away from another, including the State."
First half correct, second half wrong. The state does have the right to take a life. In this case that right was exercised by a jury under the careful guidance of the law, as built up in the last two hundred years in this country.
Justice was served. If you don't like it, work to change it, but do not say it was not correct.
Me? I'm good.
Well said
By moxie
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 6:18pm
The country and the city and the very people he shred, murdered, and mutilated gave him a chance. A jury, charged with looking at evidence, and making a decision.
That's a lot more than he gave Martin Richard, and hundreds of others.
I'll stand with the jury on this one. And in this instance, they are the only ones that matter.
Best comment on this thread
By anon
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 7:00pm
Couldn't have said it better.
People who disagreed with the
By Kinopio
Sat, 05/16/2015 - 1:04am
People who disagreed with the death penalty were not allowed to serve on the jury. The verdict will be seen as disgusting around the world.
only pro-death-penalty people can serve on the jury
By BUMP
Sat, 05/16/2015 - 8:12am
in death penalty cases, guaranteeing a verdict for the death penalty.
In Massachusetts, the majority of people are against the death penalty.
So that was not a jury of his peers.
Not quite
By adamg
Sat, 05/16/2015 - 8:49am
Yes, people who object to the death penalty were excluded from the jury. No, that doesn't mean the people who did serve were necessarily "pro" death penalty.
"pro" death penalty?
By Kaz
Sat, 05/16/2015 - 2:53pm
I don't know what you mean by that, Adam. They had to agree that they did not have a moral objection to the death penalty. They aren't "pro" death penalty in that they want it applied whenever it is offered or anything. But it does mean that given a case where there's a proven justification for applying it, they are fine with doing so. Call it "pro" choice....on the death penalty.
This wasn't a debate on the use of the death penalty. There was no chance on a life without parole decision, because if he did enough to justify that then he might as well be dead and you have a jury of members who have said they'd be willing to kill him. So, what set of circumstances would lead people who will kill you to think you are unredeemable but not worth killing?
Thus, it's a foregone conclusion which may even be how it should be if you have the death penalty on the books. Thus, death penalty opponents should work to fix the law, not depend on or bemoan a lack of jury nullification of it.
Only 15% of Bostonians polled
By Kinopio
Sat, 05/16/2015 - 1:01am
Only 15% of Bostonians polled wanted him executed. On the side of execution you have North Korea and ISIS. Congrats on being on the wrong side of history.
If they had seen all the evidence
By Robert Winters
Sat, 05/16/2015 - 8:46am
I wonder how that supposed 15% would have changed if people had seen in detail all of the evidence and heard all of the testimony presented to this fair and impartial jury.
I also seriously doubt that only 15% supported the death penalty in this case. Perhaps the sample was taken at a Cambridge convention of Quakers.
Consider the source of that poll
By moxie
Sat, 05/16/2015 - 12:32pm
The Boston Globe paid for that poll. And broadcast it's results. Which just happened to coincide with their above the fold
editorial positionin depth reporting on the whole trial. The Globe is welcome to their opinion, and protected in their expression of it. But their all-stops-out attempt to influence the process and the jury here left a pretty bad taste in my mouth.Not to mention
By anonamonster
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 3:51pm
Not to mention the agony of having to listen to people politicize the punishment OVER and OVER again.
um, but you did mention it...
By teric
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:57pm
the case go on and on, over and over on appeal; this is from what the Richards family, and others, should be spared...u wanna talk about agony?
not sure you get the meaning of the word brother.
We need another Jack Ruby
By billski
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 11:19pm
That should take care of the appeals process.
And you stand where on abortion?
By relaxyapsycho
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 3:55pm
Just curious.
nobody
By Scumquistador
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 3:58pm
should be pro abortion but thats different from being pro choice
food for thought
Sounds like a cop out
By relaxyapsycho
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:08pm
.
its scary to me
By Scumquistador
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:11pm
that you think that answer is a cop out
nobody has ever been happy to have to get an abortion. by their nature they happen because of an unwanted or dangerous pregnancy. never having had an abortion this is an assumption but i assume there is a pretty severe emotional toll on a person deciding to get an abortion or finding out its medically recommended to do so.
so yeah, i would say that being pro choice but not necessarily pro abortion isnt a cop out, its just being human.
What's scary to me
By relaxyapsycho
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:17pm
Is you think killing this maggot is disgusting but killing a baby is OK because "my body my choice".
interesting
By Scumquistador
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:19pm
i never said killing him was disgusting
If it hasn't come out, it's not a baby
By Brian Riccio
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 5:35pm
And please, let's keep adding more drains on what's left of our resources.
Tell that
By anonamonster
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:22pm
Tell that to a hopeful mother who miscarried.
i did
By Scumquistador
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:24pm
it didnt play well
My goodness!
By Brian Riccio
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:58pm
Let's try and keep logic and emotion separate here, shall we?
Congratulations
By Michael
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:26pm
On a totally irrelevant derailment of this thread into a discussion of what reproductive rights you might or might not allow
Actually, its not, you dumbass.
By anonamonster
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:33pm
Sorry you can't see the obvious parallels, but not everyone is capable of thinking logically.
Obviously, the crux of it depends on when you believe a fetus becomes an actual human being deserving of rights, which in this instance is the right to not be murdered.
If you took logic, you know
By Dot net
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 7:01pm
If you took logic, you know your ad hominem topic is a fallacy.
You want to adopt unwanted
By Kinopio
Sat, 05/16/2015 - 1:09am
You want to adopt unwanted kids? Go to a foster home and have your pick because there are plenty there. Otherwise stfu because abortion lowers the crime and welfare rates and the amount of children in foster homes.
Boo Hoo
By anon
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 3:57pm
Im just wrenching in agony think about the execution of a muslim extremist who attached my city and killed innocent people.
Get over yourself!
so what youre saying is
By Scumquistador
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:01pm
you think hes a barnacle?
please
By anon
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 5:10pm
Get off your high horse.
And many non totalitarian Asian countries have capital punishment (hanging in Japan);I consider them just as 'civilized' as the Euros, who are the ones who mostly piss and moan about capital punishment.
Now we get years upon years
By roadman
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 6:57pm
That is a very good reason why we need to seriously reform the appeals system (especially the "automatic" do-overs we give to people found guilty). But it's not a good reason to totally abolish the death penalty.
Well said. Civilized
By Kinopio
Sat, 05/16/2015 - 12:50am
Well said. Civilized countries don't execute people in 2015. Only simpletons think bloody vengeance is the best course. Even though this is a federal case the execution makes Boston look like a Third world city.
Oh, Marty
By Michael
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 3:57pm
"I hope this verdict provides a small amount of closure to the survivors, families, and all impacted by the violent and tragic events surrounding the 2013 Boston Marathon"
Even the survivors and families who said they didn't want him killed?
Marty, sometimes it's better
By anon
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:30pm
Marty, sometimes it's better to not release a statement.
The Midget Mayor Marty has no
By chaosjake
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:33pm
The Midget Mayor Marty has no original thoughts or opinions of his own. He waits to see where the wind is blowing, then figures out how to cash in.
on appeal...
By teric
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:51pm
..there is no closure for sometime to come..interesting to me that the ones MOST affected by this with tremendous loss and sorrow are the most merciful...humbling lesson in that.
Great!
By Robert Winters
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:30pm
I absolutely didn't expect this outcome, but I'm very glad the jury found as they did.
would you be up for...
By teric
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:52pm
....pulling the trigger?
....inserting the needle?
....flipping the switch?
....placing the rope?
serious questions.
i would
By Scumquistador
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 5:01pm
but i would probably ship him to florida and feed him to the gators
I'd be up for three out of the four.
By Robert Winters
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 8:18pm
I've always been squeamish about needles.
not sure why...
By teric
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 9:09pm
...but I don't believe either of you.
whether one believes in or opposes the death penalty: why is taking another life, whether you believe it is deserved or not, a cause for joy, gladness, and other elation expressed in this thread? The level of flippancy regarding this guy's fate is disturbing. This is not a video game. Like it or not, it is still premeditated killing. Add to the innocents already lost, I just don't see much to be happy about.
oh no
By Scumquistador
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 10:35pm
i have no aversion to killing, trust me
there are no stray cats in my neighborhood.
Psycho....
By MatthewC
Sat, 05/16/2015 - 12:45am
Seek help.
Agreed
By anon
Fri, 05/15/2015 - 11:10pm
It's sickening how glad people are that someone is going to die. At this point, those people scare me more than this kid.
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