Boston bomber sentaced to death

[Rambie]

A US jury has sentenced Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death by lethal injection.
Three people were killed and 260 were injured when Tsarnaev, now 21, and his brother placed bombs at the finishing line of the Boston Marathon in 2013.
Tsarnaev is likely to be moved to a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, to await execution, but there could be years of appeals.
Victims sobbed as the sentence was read, but Tsarnaev showed no emotion.

"Now he will go away and we will be able to move on. Justice. In his own words, 'an eye for an eye'," said bombing victim Sydney Corcoran, who nearly bled to death and whose mother lost both legs.

After 14 hours of deliberations, the jury concluded that Tsarnaev showed no remorse and therefore should be put to death.

"The jury has spoken. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will pay for his crimes with his life,'' said US Attorney Carmen Ortiz.
Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev were captured in photos on the day of the bombing
Three were killed and over 260 injured when two bombs detonated

Massachusetts as a state ended the death penalty in 1984, but Tsarnaev was tried on federal charges, meaning he was eligible for execution.

After the sentence was announced, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said: "The ultimate penalty is a fitting punishment for this horrific crime and we hope that the completion of this prosecution will bring some measure of closure to the victims and their families.''

But not all of the victims supported the death penalty for Tsarnaev.

The parents of Martin Richard, an eight-year-old boy killed in the blast, wrote an article in the Boston Globe newspaper last month asking the government to not seek a death sentence as it would delay their emotional closure.

Tsarnaev stood next to his lawyer. He tilted his head to the side and shifted his weight from one foot to the other as he heard the clerk read the notes from the jurors.

After the death sentence was announced, he bowed his head.

A juror with gold hoop earrings took a drink from a water bottle. A moment later she started to cry. Another juror touched her to reassure her and to comfort her.

Another juror with dark-framed glasses and a blue shirt cried too. He took off his glasses. He wiped his forehead and wiped his eyes. He bit his lips, distraught.

The Associated Press news agency reached Tsarnaev's father, Anzor Tsarnaev, by phone in the Russian region of Dagestan on Friday. He moaned after hearing the sentence and hung up.

During the trial, Tsarnaev's defence team admitted that he had played a role in the attacks but said that his older brother, Tamerlan - shot dead by police in the subsequent manhunt - was the driving force.

Lawyers also highlighted his difficult early life. The Tsarnaevs - ethnic Chechens - had lived in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan and the volatile Dagestan region of Russia, near Chechnya. The family moved to the US in 2002.

Media caption US Attorney Carmin Ortiz said the verdict was "fair and just" but that it was "not a day for celebration"

But prosecutors argued that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was an equal partner in the attack, showing the jury a message he wrote on the boat where he was arrested.

"Stop killing our innocent people and we will stop," it read.

Throughout the trial, the jurors heard grisly testimony from bombing survivors. They described seeing their legs blown off or watching someone next to them die.

At the start of the penalty phase, the prosecutors showed jurors a photo of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev raising his middle finger to a jail cell security camera months after his arrest.

"This is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev - unconcerned, unrepentant and unchanged," prosecutor Nadine Pellegrin said.
The victims

Restaurant manager Krystle Campbell, 29, had gone to watch a friend complete the race
Chinese graduate student Lu Lingzi was studying statistics at Boston University
Eight-year-old Martin Richard was standing with his family, cheering the runners

Victims' profiles in full

[Basra-]

First of all, I thought that liberal state had no death penalty? Did they remove it since 1980s????? How can they select who to give it to and who not to give it to? Has the constitution been violated here? This kids rights has been compromised. Second of all, for some reason i feel pity for this kid. Walahii-- i saw him on the cell, they showed it on our local news. He was checking his hair through a glass door, and sitting down--innocently. Its so sad that such a kid was influenced by a dumb older brother. I mean, truly sad. Its not even fair that he should be sentenced to life in prison even though, i think it better than death penalty. His best punishment should have been 10 years for him to grow up and feel lucky he got a second chance. I feel bad for the dead and hurt victims as well, but Alaah swt has their fate in his hand. This kids fate is a mans fate.

[gedo_gurl]

Its not reached an eye for an eye yet.

[Basra-]

Its not reached an eye for an eye yet.

huh?

[barbarossa]

First of all, I thought that liberal state had no death penalty? Did they remove it since 1980s????? How can they select who to give it to and who not to give it to? Has the constitution been violated here? This kids rights has been compromised. Second of all, for some reason i feel pity for this kid. Walahii-- i saw him on the cell, they showed it on our local news. He was checking his hair through a glass door, and sitting down--innocently. Its so sad that such a kid was influenced by a dumb older brother. I mean, truly sad. Its not even fair that he should be sentenced to life in prison even though, i think it better than death penalty. His best punishment should have been 10 years for him to grow up and feel lucky he got a second chance. I feel bad for the dead and hurt victims as well, but Alaah swt has their fate in his hand. This kids fate is a mans fate.

Massachusetts as a state ended the death penalty in 1984, but Tsarnaev was tried on federal charges, meaning he was eligible for execution.

Basra, you did not even bother to read the article, did you?

[gedo_gurl]

"The [Boston] bombings were in retribution for the U.S. crimes in places like Iraq and Afghanistan [and] that the victims of the Boston bombing were collateral damage, in the same way innocent victims have been collateral damage in U.S. wars around the world."

The US has called all the deaths in Somalia caused by their bombing campaign against one or two jihadis as 'collateral' damage. The same with every Muslim country they've bombed. If these were non Muslim casualties, there would be a serious consequences. They bomb in a haphazard manner because they're not looking for terrorists, thats time consuming, they want to weaken them by making sure that they lose public backing....that's how this war works. All these people are martyrs though so we lost them and they lost nothing but dunia.

As for the death penalty in America...if there is a federal law which allows it under some circumstances even in states which don't practise it, its a nationwide policy and should be seen as such.

[Basra-]

LOL@Barb

Thank u! loool N o i did not read it, I find it hard to continue reading articles that don't capture me in the first sentence. I expect high writing standards i have on others.


Still---it was unfair to try him federally. What significance does state elimination of death penalty have then? Useless. Something is fundamentally wrong yaaqee!

[grandpakhalif]

Alhamdillulah, better to be put to death than in prison until death

[gedo_gurl]

Alhamdillulah, better to be put to death than in prison until death

He would have used the time for ibaada grandpa, everyone needs forgiving of sins. This is to stop him from spreading Islam in the prisons because he has a high profile.

[Basra-]

Alhamdillulah, better to be put to death than in prison until death

He would have used the time for ibaada grandpa, everyone needs forgiving of sins. This is to stop him from spreading Islam in the prisons because he has a high profile.

gedo--do u think a Suufi and a Shiite can make a good couple? U and grandpa need to marry and fcuk like rabbits tafadhal.

[grandpakhalif]

Alhamdillulah, better to be put to death than in prison until death

He would have used the time for ibaada grandpa, everyone needs forgiving of sins. This is to stop him from spreading Islam in the prisons because he has a high profile.

You think if he was alive he'd be in general population? They are keeping him in 23 hour a day solitary confinement in the notorious government prisons. He would never see the light of day! This is tantamount to torture, so yes death is much more merciful

[gedo_gurl]

How would you know if a marriage with a shiite was temporary or not? I like my Sunni Suufism....its illegal to marry if you are planning on divorcing....only God would come up with that....so Shiism is kufaar make believe religion calling for rape of Muslim women. Those evil Houthi's sell girls to Saudi's on the border under this concept. I think the Yemen ran out of children who havent been messed with and they decided to bomb them.

Grandpa, being alone would not be that bad if you have iman, but they would never leave him alone, they'd hound him til he goes mad. God would forgive his sins then. But Allah has a plan and this is it.

[grandpakhalif]

Exactly, you pretty much summed it up but imo the Tsarnaev brothers were setup

[gedo_gurl]

By whom? Scary times and anything is possible. Saudia just funded Israel and they've just used the money to deport the deluded Africans back home....I can't keep up.

[xiimaaya]

This dude deserve to be bombed just like he killed those poor ppl.