Posted on 08/01/2020 1:38:07 AM PDT by NorseViking
A federal appeals court Friday threw out Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, saying the judge who oversaw the case did not adequately screen jurors for potential biases.
A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a new penalty-phase trial on whether the 27-year-old Tsarnaev should be executed for the attack that killed three people and wounded more than 260 others.
“But make no mistake: Dzhokhar will spend his remaining days locked up in prison, with the only matter remaining being whether he will die by execution,” Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson wrote in the ruling, more than six months after arguments were heard in the case.
An attorney for Tsarnaev said they are grateful for the court’s “straightforward and fair decision: if the government wishes to put someone to death, it must make its case to a fairly selected jury that is provided all relevant information.”
"It is now up to the government to determine whether to put the victims and Boston through a second trial, or to allow closure to this terrible tragedy by permitting a sentence of life without the possibility of release,” David Patton said in an email.
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In 10 years, they’ll come back and get the little bastchard released.
So now they can release him for fear of Covid?
How very Democrat of them. There are just not enough soy boys throwing tantrums out there I guess.
The last execution in Massachusetts took place in 1947.
Two gangsters got the electric chair on the same day for murdering a teenage accomplice who had hugely exaggerated the potential take from a robbery.
Liberal puke judges standing for the sanctity of life for murderers, innocent new life no
Completely stupid.
What about RollingStone making a glowing portrayal of this scumbag, judge?
What was all these cops going into people’s homes for then judge?
Will the citizens of Boston have to shelter in place again?
Execute Speedbump’s brother now. 🏴☠️
The rest of his life in prison? Yeah, until a Democrat president pardons him.
same corrupt selfserving brownshirts who
eliminated MEN and WOMEN and MARRIAGE for
RomneyCARE when he overruled the Mass. Constitution.
it is all about THEM and who/what they can destroy.
More of your left wing Democrat Party psyops.
We have to submit and be subjugated to Islam.
We have to accept Islamic Murderers of innocents and children.
Message being sent by these judges (political operatives).
It’s OK for a Muslim to murder and terrorize and if they do so they can’t be killed.
All part of Koranic justice. If they killed in a Muslim country for killing a non Muslim, he’d be free by now.
Give it time and these corrupt lawyers and judges, when they get bribed enough, that SOB will walk!
Must be a misprint.That scum lawyer surely said "we are grateful for the court having allowed us to bill US taxpayers for another $100,000."
Man, I really don’t want to read the ruling this morning. Anyone know the tortured logic in which the jury was correct in convicting him but somehow wrong in the sentencing?
Way past time for these leftists to find severed heads in their beds.
Because a state execution is cruel and “unusual” - whereas death by a pressure cooker packed with roofing nails is not unusual at all....
“Electricity roared but you looked so bored on the line
Nobody knows how it felt to see that cannonball melt in your mind
Calling all cars, one less dog behind bars, one less man in pain
It hurts to see you go but darling don’t you know we’re so glad you came
And you’ll stay gone a long, long time
Day by day you’ll fly across our minds
Only a fool would want to stick around
When you’re heaven bound
Disconnect the phone, heart from bone, voice from mind
So sad and blue, how’d you do, of course you did just fine
So grab a tail on this big gray whale and do your best to stay brave
In that final hour he was just a beautiful flower that couldn’t be saved”
I like to listen to this song on days of execution. Written by Damon Bramblett.
It’s cheaper to let these idiots sit in prison for the rest of their lives - rather than the lengthy court appeals up until their death...
“...did not adequately screen jurors for potential biases.” — is bullshit — of course EVERYONE knows about this case - since the news covered it 24x7 after it happened ...
It’s not a matter of fact whether he did this — HE DID — WE ALL KNOW HE DID -— the point of his court case is that - were the rules of laws and investigation followed — should have nothing to do with jurors at this point — it was an act of terrorism/war.
Being judged by his peers should not apply in this case - he should have stood against a military court - not a civilian.
The whole way he gained US Citizenship is another tragedy - His dad shows up on a tourist visa - applies for asylum while Future Terrorist is only 8 yrs old in 2002 - by 2007 he and his terrorist brother became permanent residents - but still went back to Russia to re-new his passport. By 2012, on 9/11 he took the oath to become a US Citizen — only to turn around and attack the US.
...that, ladies and gentlemen - is what is called an Insider Threat!
The kicker to this is - they could go back and see if his app for citizenship was fraudulent - any investigator could prove that — they had a plan - it comes down to who pulls the strings of financing this investigation - where his citizenship could be revoked and a military court seeks the death penalty from a foreign enemy attacking actual US CITIZENS.
..but I’ve not seen that play out — again, the Gov elitist trash citizens once again.
Boston Stupid
Agreed. This lawfare by jihadi lawyers.
JoMa
According to the mayor of londonstan terrorism is part and parcel of living in a big city.
It's the "new normal"! Like facemasks, goggles, and yellow hats....
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