No, Death Isn't 'Too Good' for Tsarnaev

Townhall.com ^ | February 12, 2014 | Jeffrey Meyer

[Kaslin]

The author is Jeff Jacoby, not Jeffrey Meyer

[DrDude]

Execute now. Worry about Marytardom later.

[Kaslin]

Marytardom? What’s to worry about Marytardom?

[skeeter]

At the time I was sorry they took this punk alive.

Having to pay for his incarceration and trial was adding insult to injury.

[BuffaloJack]

Put the SOB in a freezer and never speak of it until everyone forgets who he is, then dump him at sea with the other trash.

[allendale]

If his remains are defiled with pork, he would not be a martyr. Modern Americans would think that bizarre and distasteful. However terrorists who are motivated by the thought of a glorious heavenly reward would shudder.

[Diogenesis]

Why was he allowed into the USA without a Passport
and after Russia warned America he would kill Bostonians?

He should not be the ONLY one on trial.

[The_Media_never_lie]

The only worry about martyrdom should be how to create more of them.

[Starstruck]

These murders were probably more premeditated and planned out than most even though they didn’t know who the victims would be. When this guy walked up and put the bomb beside the kids he chose his victims. Maybe giving him the death penalty for killing his brother would remove the perceived martyrdom.

[Procyon]

If this punk really wanted recognition as a martyr to his cause why didn't he surrender himself soon after the killing? Why does he not immediately plead guilty and ask for the death penalty instead of having his attorneys argue for a trial delay for at least another 18 months?

And if by chance his desire and ours (for application of the death penalty) coincide, so what?

[Count of Monte Fisto]

Why was he allowed into the USA without a Passport and after Russia warned America he would kill Bostonians?

The only way that can happen is if he is an intelligence asset.

That drugged up Underwear bomber was put on to AA Flight 253 without a passport either. It came out in Congressional testimony that the State Department wanted to revoke his visa but the CIA over ruled them.

[OrangeHoof]

I’d rather he be sentenced to having a leg and an arm blown off and then be executed 5 years later but that would be considered “cruel and unusual”. The anti-DP folks wouldn’t like that any more than they like the idea of killing him outright.

[fivecatsandadog]

It amounts to rewarding him ONLY IF you buy into the muslim/islam b.s. Executing him would demonstrate that WE THE PEOPLE don’t give a crap about their tyrannical ideology.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

If this punk really wanted recognition as a martyr to his cause why didn't he surrender himself soon after the killing? Why does he not immediately plead guilty and ask for the death penalty instead of having his attorneys argue for a trial delay for at least another 18 months?

Good point. And remember, he and his brother went well out of their way to try to save themselves.

[longfellowsmuse]

that is an interesting point. sadly, the legal trial and appeals process in a death penalty case costs more in taxpayer money than a lifetime of incarceration. I would rather Americans not have to pay any more than necessary to deal with this killer. That being said with the number of fans this young man seems to have in order to make sure he is no longer a threat to the American public death seems the only reasonable option.

[Syntyr]

easy peasy... Tsarnev who? Where?

[lepton]

The death penalty is only too good for him if the system were going to blow off his feet and send him to jail without a wheelchair or prosthetics. We’re not going to do that...so the death penalty will have to suffice.

[bboop]

Yes, I was sorry they took him alive too. Could have been so cheap - and done!

[Trod Upon]

The only worry about martyrdom should be how to create more of them.