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Why Boston Is Queasy About the Tsarnaev Death Sentence
Politico ^ | May 16, 2015 | TOM KEANE

Posted on 05/16/2015 9:07:19 PM PDT by Second Amendment First

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To: TBP

....and in twenty years these same ‘thoughtful’ liberals will be the same ones demonstrating for this little scum-bags release ‘because he has now demonstrated in his writings and interviews that he no longer believes in terrorism’
Then liberal teachers will have their classes write get well letters to their long suffering political prisoner.


41 posted on 05/16/2015 10:32:14 PM PDT by Larry381 (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: Mark17

“It was Armed and Dangerous, is that the one you were thinking of?”

Yeah, and I really liked Meg Ryan as the handgun instructor. “This is where the bullets come out!” pointing to the muzzle.


42 posted on 05/16/2015 10:32:24 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Second Amendment First
"...By a wide majority, the Bay State’s citizens opposed the ultimate punishment for Tsarnaev..."

What a load of BS. I haven't personally talked to anyone up here who opposes it. I guess I just don't hang around with the right people.

43 posted on 05/16/2015 11:01:40 PM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Seems like I was taught that they were burnt at the stake, but I see now that is incorrect.


44 posted on 05/16/2015 11:06:24 PM PDT by matthew fuller (God bless and protect Pamela Geller.)
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To: Lurker

I agree, but without the love.


45 posted on 05/16/2015 11:15:10 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: caww

Some on a news program yesterday said That the Boston Bomber would be sent to a Super Max facility South of Terra Haute Indiana


46 posted on 05/16/2015 11:27:56 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: Sir Napsalot
McVeigh had several agenda items he wanted to exploit the Federal Courts for. When it became clear he was not going to be permitted to have his dog and pony show, he dropped his appeals. He was executed within five months of his doing so; had he not voluntarily dropped his appeals, considering the FBI/US Attorneys' mishandling of evidence he might still be alive today. That would be a shame.
47 posted on 05/16/2015 11:31:59 PM PDT by FredZarguna (On your deathbed you will receive total consciousness. So I got that goin' for me.)
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To: matthew fuller; Zhang Fei

All but one were hanged. One was executed by stoning.


48 posted on 05/16/2015 11:33:50 PM PDT by FredZarguna (On your deathbed you will receive total consciousness. So I got that goin' for me.)
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To: kiryandil

Tom Keen is an evil murderer in the television show “The Black List”


49 posted on 05/16/2015 11:49:17 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: vette6387
Yeah, and I really liked Meg Ryan as the handgun instructor. “This is where the bullets come out!” pointing to the muzzle

Kind of like a football coach saying, gentlemen, this is a football.

50 posted on 05/17/2015 12:57:49 AM PDT by Mark17 (The love of God, how rich and pure, how measureless and strong. It shall forever more endure.)
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To: caww

McVeigh’s execution was relatively swift because McVeigh didn’t engage in endless appeals; this Boston terrorist in contrast, will make endless appeals.


51 posted on 05/17/2015 1:27:25 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Second Amendment First

The poor MSM is on suicide watch.

The People are glad the perp is going to die,
although most want him eaten by pig today.


52 posted on 05/17/2015 3:09:15 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Second Amendment First

The question I have is Was this a federal court?
And if so, do the feds even have jurisdiction?


53 posted on 05/17/2015 3:13:38 AM PDT by djf (OK. Well, now, lemme try to make this clear: If you LIKE your lasagna, you can KEEP your lasagna!)
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To: Lurker
We're a bunch of effing commies in Massachusetts. Why should there be a death penalty when we have former Sen. Ted Kennedy who can drive a woman into poucha pond (suffocating her not drowning her) and be elected up until his death a few years ago? /sarc Thank god the federal government had a "pair" om this case and sought the death penalty.

Since I know something about basic economics and the...glorious history of Communism/Socialism, I am a real black sheep in our Communist of Massachusetts.

Liberal Chick gets college students to sign pressure cooker ban

54 posted on 05/17/2015 3:30:18 AM PDT by Stepan12 (Our present appeasementof Islam is the Stockholm Syndrome on steroids.)
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To: djf
The question I have is Was this a federal court?

Yep.

And if so, do the feds even have jurisdiction?

Would you prefer Taxachusetts had jurisdiction? Because, then, the Joker wouldn't be slated to die, Massachusetts not having the death penalty.

Instead, he might marry one to four of his groupies ... e.g.,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpmecKmzDhg

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2323342/Dzhokhar-Tsarnaev-The-teen-girls-crush-Boston-bomber.html

55 posted on 05/17/2015 3:35:55 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

I kinda figured that Massachusetts doesn’t have the death penalty.

Which leads us to a question: Why, if the murders happened in Massachusetts, do the feds have jurisdiction?

And I AM NOT asking because I don’t think he deserves it, but I am asking because of the powers that exist, the Tenth amendment.


56 posted on 05/17/2015 3:45:23 AM PDT by djf (OK. Well, now, lemme try to make this clear: If you LIKE your lasagna, you can KEEP your lasagna!)
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To: Second Amendment First
Politico....you've gotta love the little Commie b*stards.
57 posted on 05/17/2015 3:49:54 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obama;A Low Grade Intellect With Even Lower Morals)
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To: cynwoody; All

Could be fed jurisdiction because of terrorism or with “use of a weapon of mass destruction”.

In 1997 the MA Legislatur almost approved the DP, but state rep. John Slattery (”Slattery will get you nowhere”, I always say) changed his vote and it went down. (Thought there was a non binding referendum question about it shortly before which did pass...)

http://www.nodp.org/ma/stacks/globe_110797.html

>>(Nov 1997) Nine days after voting 81-79 in favor of capital punishment, the chamber deadlocked after one representative, John P. Slattery of Peabody, switched
his vote out of concern that innocent people could face execution, and that the bill did not afford enough protection for juveniles and minorities.

>>Under parliamentary rules, the 80-80 vote killed the bill, which would have allowed capital punishment for 15 categories of first-degree murder. The vote preserved Massachusetts’ status as one of 12 states without the
death penalty.


As I understand it while one of the Tsarnaev brothers shot Officer Sean Collier, the jury may have figured it was Tamerlan aka Speedbump, not “the Joker”. Maybe they both shot him...? Apparently Dzokhar had killed Martin Richard, 8, and Lu Lingzi, 23 and it was those deaths that triggered the DP (charges).

Wiki (Marathon Bombings): “On April 18 at about 10:48 pm, Sean A. Collier, 27, an MIT police officer...was ambushed in his police car and died from multiple gunshot wounds from the bombing suspects.”


58 posted on 05/17/2015 4:04:02 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

The Wiki entry for Dzohkar says both brothers shot Collier

>>Tsarnaev and his brother murdered MIT police officer Sean Collier on April 18 at the MIT campus


59 posted on 05/17/2015 4:08:32 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: djf
Why, if the murders happened in Massachusetts, do the feds have jurisdiction?

They shouldn't. But they do. Unfortunately for the Joker.

And I AM NOT asking because I don’t think he deserves it, but I am asking because of the powers that exist, the Tenth amendment.

Maybe he could do something useful by appealing successfully, thereby saving his miserable Mooselimb life and preserving the Tenth.

60 posted on 05/17/2015 4:24:36 AM PDT by cynwoody
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