Here’s the bad news, which Free Republic should pick up on: He will not receive the death penalty. Massachusetts does not have the death penalty. The reason Timothy McVeigh was tried in federal court and received the death penalty was that 8 of his 168 victims were federal officials. Oklahoma never filed capital (murder) charges against McVeigh, preferring to rely upon the federal death penalty and avoid the cost of a trial.
This perp is a US citizen, and will simply be tried for murder in a Massachusetts state court and sentenced to life in prison. End of story.
Sorry for putting out this bad news, but them’s the facts.
Joe...I wondered what Mass. law was on the death penalty...even so this guy will spill his guts...and I don’t buy what others are saying that he’ll be lawyered up before they can extract information....there are other ways to work this and you can bet they will work it. He’ll talk...
I suspect too, even if he gets life in prison....I doubt he’ll last long...either way he’s pretty much done with life on the outside.
He will be tried in federal court for terrorism charges.