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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Likely Won’t Face Execution For A Very Long Time
FiveThirtyEight ^ | May 15,2015 | By BEN CASSELMAN

Posted on 05/16/2015 12:59:28 PM PDT by Hojczyk

The vast majority of those cases took place at the state level. Federal prisoners like Tsarnaev are even less likely to be executed. Between 1988, when Congress reinstated the death penalty for federal cases, and 2013, 71 federal defendants were sentenced to death; only three were executed, compared with 10 who had their sentences or convictions overturned on appeal.

(One inmate died on death row, and another had his sentence commuted to life by President Bill Clinton in 2001.) No federal execution has taken place since 2003. Of those still awaiting execution, the typical inmate has already spent a decade on death row, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. (The center’s data is current through 2014.)

Tsarnaev’s case, of course, is atypical in a number of ways. There is little doubt about his guilt; his lawyer admitted at trial that Tsarnaev carried out the bombing, although he technically pleaded not guilty. And his crime was unusually high-profile.

Perhaps the closest parallel in recent decades was the case of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, who was executed in 2001, four years after his sentencing. But McVeigh dropped his appeal in 2000; had he not done so, he could have remained on death row for years longer.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: boston; bostonmarathon; deathrow; dzhokhartsarnaev; massachusetts; tsarnaev
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1 posted on 05/16/2015 12:59:28 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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Lawyers will take and take from the fools who live there…He should be taken out in a month and hanged in public ….


2 posted on 05/16/2015 1:01:47 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

If israelis won’t execute Muslim terrorists, no way this compromised federal government will.


3 posted on 05/16/2015 1:05:53 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Hojczyk

Chance of execution with a Democrat or Liberal Republican in the Presidency?

ZERO.

Want him dead? Get rid of his enablers.


4 posted on 05/16/2015 1:06:50 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Hojczyk

Giuseppe Zangara was executed only 33 days after killing Anton Cermak.


5 posted on 05/16/2015 1:11:49 PM PDT by Perdogg (I'm on a no Carb diet- NO Christie Ayotte Romney or Bush - stay outta da Bushesh)
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To: Hojczyk

Then put him in with the general population and see if he can “squeel like a pig!”


6 posted on 05/16/2015 1:13:48 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Some times you need more than six shots. Much more.)
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To: Hojczyk
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Hey Joker!

I guess the joke's on you (don't drop the soap)

7 posted on 05/16/2015 1:17:34 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: Hojczyk

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Disregard the concept of “reasonable doubt”. Is there *any* doubt at all that he is guilty of performing the act?


8 posted on 05/16/2015 1:18:53 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: Hojczyk

Good. Leave him in his tiny cell and let him out those two hours two days a week.


9 posted on 05/16/2015 1:20:46 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: Hojczyk

Hopefully he gets gang raped, then gets his throat cut.


10 posted on 05/16/2015 1:22:52 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: jjotto

BINGO!! He is Muslim, that will save him from actually being executed.


11 posted on 05/16/2015 1:25:38 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: Hojczyk

He’ll be out by 2017 once Obummer pardons him.


12 posted on 05/16/2015 1:26:58 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 17 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: EEGator
As a conservative, I've got a problem encouraging homosexual rape. That doesn't seem like supporting the rule of law, and I do believe in the rule of law.

I would like for them to hurry up with the lawful sentence passed on him.

He needs a dirt nap.

/johnny

13 posted on 05/16/2015 1:26:58 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Assigning in general population in AB wing at Ft. Leavenworth = problem solved


14 posted on 05/16/2015 1:32:36 PM PDT by slapshot ("Tan, drunk and stupid is no way to govern Mr. Boehner".)
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To: Hojczyk
As I wrote today on an earlier thread:
15 posted on 05/16/2015 1:37:14 PM PDT by upchuck (The current Federal Government is what the Founding Fathers tried to prevent. WAKE UP!! Amendment V)
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this i do not get....

” McVeigh dropped his appeal in 2000; had he not done so, he could have remained on death row for years longer.


16 posted on 05/16/2015 2:06:50 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: JRandomFreeper

I’m fine with some vigilantism...I’m aware that isn’t conservative, and I don’t care.


17 posted on 05/16/2015 2:10:41 PM PDT by EEGator
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I think the execution will move more quickly in this case. There is no doubt whatsoever about his guilt. Even his own lawyers admitted he carried out the bombings. Even the people of Massachusetts want to see him executed.

But yes, we are likely talking years before he finally gets the needle.

In the meantime, keep him locked up in a tiny windowless cell with virtually no human interaction other than heavily armed guards handing him a plate of bland food and a dirty glass of warm water.

Let him have his one hour of "exercise" alone in a dark yard - maybe at 2 in the morning.

18 posted on 05/16/2015 2:17:30 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: EEGator
I'm not a fan of homosexual rape for any reason. I guess different folks have different ideas on what is appropriate.

/johnny

19 posted on 05/16/2015 2:25:41 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

I’m not a “fan” of it. He deserves a terrible end to his life.


20 posted on 05/16/2015 2:47:58 PM PDT by EEGator
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