I thought no death penalty in Mass.
We’ve got at least a couple of federal capital crimes to charge him with. In the last ten years Congress expanded the category of these crimes.
Detonating an explosive device in the crowd on a public street should qualify as federal capital crime under the expanded statute.
Also, killing the MIT cop is probably a federal capital crime, even though the cop was not a federal agent, because the perps were the object of a federal investigation and did so to avoid apprehension.
A bigger question is whether Holder would be willing to seek the federal death penalty, even though it appears he has grounds to do so. I think no.
federal charges not state, and I THOUGHT THE LEFT WAS AGAINST THE DEATH PENEALTY.
I wonder if they had hit small town in the south and not liberal yuppie student Boston the death penalty and Miranda rights were have been done