Posted on 05/16/2015 12:37:07 AM PDT by nickcarraway
According to a new poll, most Boston and Massachusetts residents oppose the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
The Boston Globe poll found that fewer than 20 percent of Massachusetts residents supported the death penalty for the Boston Marathon bomber. Only 15 percent of Boston residents believe he should be executed. One-third of Massachusetts residents and one-quarter of Boston residents believe execution is typically appropriate for egregious crimes.
"It seems that voters have concluded that Tsarnaev does not deserve a quick death, but rather should spend the remainder of his days in a windowless cell contemplating the heinous acts that put him there," Frank Perullo, president of Sage Systems LLC, which conducted the poll, told the Globe. "To voters, it would seem death is too easy an escape."
Tsarnaev, 21, was found guilty on 30 counts for the 2013 bombing that killed three and injured 260. His defense team is fighting for a life sentence with no chance of parole, as opposed to a death sentence. He will only get the death sentence if all jurors agree on it.
Yeah, well, the same people long ago determined that such a punishment is cruel. The alternative to death now is a lifetime in prison with air conditioning and TV and the opportunity to radicalize countless other inmates.
You bring up a good point. In the age of the Smart Phone how many people are truly available as they take their names off all list and land lines are an anachronism at this point.
Also, if they did get a-hold of someone, what neighborhoods or zip codes in Boston proper. The demographic is different in "Southie" than it is in Beacon Hill.
Howie Carr's show yesterday? Lotta volunteers to administer this as well as no "Moon Bats" calling in for Life in Prison.
The poll is garbage.
What happened was this, a Globe editor wanted to do a story on people opposing the death penalty, so he called the poll department (Yes, they have a poll department.) and got them to do a poll on how much opposition there is to the death penalty.
Years ago this was a ballot question. It passed, not overwhelmingly, but convincely.
TFB. The poll taken by the 12 selected jurors was the only one that mattered.
I don’t buy that he wants a quick death... otherwise he’d have opted for the death penalty himself instead of contending for a life sentence.
Not THIS Bostonian!!
I don't know the numbers, but my understanding is the same as yours, mostly because the defense lawyers and libtard groups file frivolous appeal after after frivolous appeal, and then complain about the cost of the death penalty. An analogous situation is the man who murders his parents, and then throws himself on the mercy of the court because he's an orphan.
Idiots! Only poll that counts is from the twelve!
>>> Or some other gruesome form of death?
My reply (elsewhere after the verdict) -
Death by two pressure cookers. I want him to suffer amputated legs at the knees first, then slowly bleeding to death.
Good point. If it were true that fewer than one in five Bostonians favored the death penalty, and the jurors were representative of the population, the odds against his receiving a death sentence would be on the order of one in 244 million (5^12). All this showed was that this kind of poll is extremely unreliable.
“”It seems that voters have concluded that Tsarnaev does not deserve a quick death, but rather should spend the remainder of his days in a windowless cell contemplating the heinous acts that put him there,””
Until another Dukakis-clone furloughs him. Anyway, since when did the death penalty result in a “quick death” in this country - maybe 50 year ago, if not further back in time?
Sounds like CS Lewis exposition of the mystery of iniquity via his book the Screwtape letters. Well done sir. I will paste this posting to my home page with proper attribution and credit given to you. I plan to use this a lot...especially on face book. You win the internet of the week as far as I’m concerned!
“Reports are that keeping a prisoner alive is cheaper than death penalty. How much more has this death penalty phase cost? Are they going to prove this by numerous appeals?”
I wonder about this...is there any study, is it simply “conventional wisdom”. Lots of people do lots of appealing without being on Death Row, although the appeals rate does go down after they’re executed - that can be documented.
His death sentence should be swift because the terrorists will abduct some poor sucker somewhere and want to make a swap.
“Reports are that keeping a prisoner alive is cheaper than death penalty. How much more has this death penalty phase cost? Are they going to prove this by numerous appeals?”
Also, does the cost really matter, if there are only a relative handful of people on Death Row. Not blaming you (you’re the messenger), but it is a STANDARD LIBERAL ARGUMENT to complain about the cost of government doing something, rather than simply stating that they oppose it. They will often say something like “it costs $10,000 per day to have a special session of the Texas Legislature” when they’re meeting to discuss abortion restrictions...they will never make that argument if they’re instead meeting to pass a new school tax.
So when you see complain about the cost to government...it is ALWAYS a diversion from what they’re really complaining about.
What are they worried about? With the appeals, he’ll be on death row for 30 years. With 3 hots and a cot and a sex change operation if he so desires.
Part of the title is missing, it should read:
“Poll: Most Bostonians Oppose Death Penalty for Marathon Bomber While They Approve Of Abortion”.
Over at DU there’s a group that thinks life is to long. Ten years and he could be “rehabilitated”. People really are stupid.
You can ask Timothy McVeigh how long it takes, no,wait....
So retitle it, “Do you approve of aborting the bomber dude ?” and it’ll get majority support.
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