Posted on 04/24/2015 10:33:37 AM PDT by massmike
The sudden outburst of weepiness for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is truly stomach turning. As a jury decides his sentence, this is a bad time for Beantown’s storied liberalism to rear its soft head.
Only 26 percent of Bostonians would like to see the Chechen immigrant put to death; 61 percent would give him life in prison.
For both justice and national security, Dzhokhar deserves death.
Even as a model prisoner, Tsarnaev could become swap bait: Terrorists might kidnap innocent people and try to trade them for Tsarnaev.
By swapping accused Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl for five top Taliban commanders, Obama discarded like a pair of torn socks America’s policy of not negotiating with terrorists. With that principle now festering in a landfill, Muslim extremists could try to force Obama or his successor to bargain Tsarnaev away in exchange for one or more kidnapped Americans.
Even if the U.S. response is, “No dice,” Americans should not be put at such risk. Promptly dispatching Tsarnaev avoids this entire matter.
Finally, life-without-parole sentences don’t always stick. Sometimes they just mean decades of prison, release for “good behavior,” and then years of freedom.
Life without parole is too severe for the soft-on-crime crowd.
“It gives up on everyone, regardless of whether they exhibit any capacity for growth and change,” University of Houston law professor David Dow complained in The Daily Beast. “It robs people of hope; it exaggerates the risk to society of releasing convicted murderers; and it turns prisons into geriatric wards, with inmates rolling around in taxpayer-funded wheelchairs carrying oxygen canisters in their laps.”
Unlike “life without parole,” the death penalty can not be reversed due to such mush.
So, in short: Death to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev!
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
EXACTLY! That's why terrorists need to be put to death.
His defenders argue he only followed his big brother.
If not for the ringleader, the crime would never happen, much less would he have participated.
That’s irrelevant.
That gives an excuse, well, I thought it was fine to kill and maim people as long as someone else led me into it.
Huh?
Death...
I don’t feel this way about every capital crime, but in this case, I’m not only willing to ‘see’ the perpetrator put to death, I’m willing to actually be the person who puts him to death.
I’ll buy the rope.
What he deserves is years of misery and a long-delayed trip to get his 72 virgins and 17 young men.
If people are getting weepy I will gladly perform the public service. All I ask in return is two tickets (complete with parking pass) to an MLB game at Fenway...
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