O’Malley reacts to Tsarnaev verdict: ‘Death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent’

newsmax ^ | 5/16/15 | k howell

[bestintxas]

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley said Friday that the death penalty sentence for Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was “ineffective.”

While the likely Democratic presidential candidate said that he “respects the verdict of the jury” and said his prayers go to the victims and their loved ones, he used the occasion to make another statement on his opposition to the death penalty.

“The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members,” Mr. O’Malley said, Mediaite reported Friday. Mr. O’Malley added that “the vast majority of public executions” happen in the U.S., North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, and China, and said that was a list the U.S. should not be on, Mediaite reported.

[skams19]

O’Malley is ineffective as a candidate.

[arthurus]

A death sentence entails huge expenses for all the years of special treatment and appeals that it entails. Much cheaper and more just would be a short life sentence, thirty or ninety days.

[Paid_Russian_Troll]

‘Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley said Friday that the death penalty sentence for Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was “ineffective.”’

This guy doesn’t seems like very bright. One thing for sure, the chance of repeated offence is zero with death penalty. Seems like a 100% effective deterrent to me.

[arthurus]

Liberals oppose the death penalty because they can imagine themselves receiving it. They know deep in their guts they are overstepping civilized bounds with their constant actions and beliefs and viscerally but vaguely feel they are subject to the death penalty. For complementary reasons they are all for abortion. They cannot be aborted, being already born and adult.

[Crazieman]

Dukakis 2.0

Just like DeCommio is Dinkins 2.0.

Maybe we should update Twain’s saying on history, that it doesn’t repeat, but rhyme.

In the modern era, we just upgrade it.

[Jim Noble]

and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members,” Mr. O’Malley said

And why is that, Mr. O'Malley?

The German saboteurs in 1942 had their SINGLE appeal heard on July 30, 1942 and they fried on August 8. The appeal happened two weeks after their trial and six weeks after they were arrested.

[Common Sense 101]

‘Death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent’ It's not intended to be a deterrent, but instead justice. An added bonus is the fact that recidivism rate among those executed is 0%.

[Common Sense 101]

‘Death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent’

It's not intended to be a deterrent, but instead justice. An added bonus is the fact that recidivism rate among those executed is 0%.

[Liz]

Coming from war-torn Maryland, maybe O'Malley thinks more govt handouts would deter terrorism?

Survivors outraged after learning Tsarnaev's family's trip to US paid for with American tax dollars
MyFox Boston ^ | 4/24/15 / FT Posted by Impala64ssa

The family of the convicted marathon bomber is in America, on your tax dollars, and survivors are outraged after learning the news. As of Thursday, family members of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have been staying at the Hampton Inn in Revere under very tight security, just one of the things tax dollars are paying for.

FOX25's Sharman Sacchetti investigated how much this trip is costing you. Sources say these family members are being called as witnesses and not only that, at least three agencies are working around the clock to protect and transport them. This is all part of the defense team's strategy to save Tsarnaev.

While it's unclear when their flight started, we know the last part of it came through Amsterdam and landed at Logan Airport and cost nearly $2,500 per person. The cost to put them up at the Hampton Inn at the government rate: almost $200 per night, per person. And a source says at least three agencies, the FBI, US Marshal's and Revere Police are involved in constant protection.

“I think you're probably talking about $100,000 plus in that neighborhood in terms of security and out of pocket costs associated with travel,” former US attorney Michael Sullivan said. And that's just for this trip. Lawyer fees or even what all witnesses during the trial cost is still unclear.

One defense witness, Mark Spencer of Arsenal Consulting, charged $375 per hour and billing taxpayers for $150,000. Governor Charlie Baker said, “It's a federal trial, it's a federal case, the feds ultimately need to make the decisions about this.” Baker was non-committal about how resources are being used, even state ones. Sullivan told Sacchetti that while he understands taxpayer outrage, the whole point is to make sure it's done right. (Excerpt) Read more at myfoxboston.com ...

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BETCHA THE BOMBING SURVIVORS DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THIS--- Within hours of the Boston Marathon blasts, US government officials, and Muslims, in Boston called each other to offer assistance......just in case THE MUZZIES suffered backlash or threats.

REFERENCE Federal outreach to Muslim American communities is a pillar of Obama counter-terrorism strategy
Washington post | 5/25/2013 | ap / FR Posted by tobyhill

Within hours of the Boston Marathon blasts, government officials and Muslims in Boston called each other to offer assistance. These calls were the fruits of years of cultivating such relationships in an effort to ultimately prevent the very type of attack Boston experienced April 15....

Representatives from the US Departments of Justice and Homeland Security called to offer support to Muslim communities......just in case THEY suffered backlash or threats. (more on FR).

ISLAM IS ALL ABOUT TRIUMPHALISM Bostonians better prepare for the US govt subsidizing the building of a mosque close to the Boston Marathon finish line b/c Islam is all about "triumphalism"......they'll get lotsa help from Democrat Obomba, Democrat Secy of State Kerry, and the Democrats currently running Boston govt.

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Then-US Sen Kerry's "credentials," presented to Ohaha when the Secy of State job became available.

BTW, this is the mosque where the Tsarnaev's worshipped.

[sauropod]

We’ve had to suffer him for many long years.

He helped put in the MD gun ban 2 years ago.

Uggghh!

[Liz]

Boston bombing survivors are outraged that Tsarnaev family's trip to the US was paid for with their tax dollars. That's b/c the US govt mandates that struggling taxpayers foot the bill for these people to go back and forth between America and their "supposedly" hostile homelands on the taxpayers' dime.

Taxpayers footed the bills for the entire buck-sucking Tsarnaev's for a long, l-o-n-g time. When these immigrants get to the US they claim "asylum" b/c that triggers endless monthly Social Security checks ......that's just for starters.

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BACKSTORY Immediately after the Boston bombing, then-Democrat Mass Gov Deval Patrick ordered Massachusetts govt agencies to conceal welfare documents from taxpayers. But sources who saw 500 pages of welfare documents (requested by a state legislator) told News Center 5 that the entire Chechnyan immigrant Tsarnaev family collected upwards of $100,00 tax dollars free and clear. MA taxpayers financed the killing and maiming of their own friends and neighbors.

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MASSACHUSETTS TAXPAYERS WERE UNKNOWINGLY FORCED TO FINANCE THE TSARNEV BROTHERS' DIRTY DEEDS BIGTIME ---After the Boston bombing, Massachusetts Democrat Gov Deval Patrick refused to divulge info WRT massive public assistance to the bomber killers/Chechen immigrants.

But state welfare officials were forced to come clean b/c the info is available to lawmakers. State Rep David Linsky called on the Mass Dept of Transitional Assistance to provide the info..... issuing an ultimatum, giving them 24 hours to provide the info.

The Boston Herald published the state's response: 'My office is working to fully comply with your request,' DTA interim commissioner Stacey Monahan wrote, saying they were only providing a summary 'given the great interest in this matter.'

Chechen immigrants--the bombers' parents----were eligible as legal, non-citizen residents who claimed "asylum" status and met the eligibility criteria for DTA, DTA interim commissioner Stacey Monahan said in a letter to David Linsky, Chairman of the Mass House Post Audit and Oversight Committee.

Multiple state agencies, on orders from Democrat Gov Patrick, refused to comment on the bomber brothers' welfare haul.

<><> WRT Tamerlan receiving UI benefits, Labor dept spokesman Kevin Franck refused to comment....

<><> Univ of Mass-- Dartmouth spokesman Robert Connolly refused to comment on the financial aid app of 19 -year-old soph Dzhokhar. 'It is our position - and I believe the accepted position in higher education - that student records including academic records and financial records (including financial aid) cannot under federal law be released without a student’s consent.'

<><> The FCC would not discuss whether the suspected bombers had govt-paid Obamaphones.

<><> Cambridge housing officials would not comment on if the brothers had Section 8 rental subsidy offered by the HUD to low income households.

<><> Chechen immigrants--the bombers' parents--were legal, non-citizen residents who claimed "asylum" status and met the eligibility criteria for endless SS checks.

<><> In sum, while planning the bombing, the Chechneyan immigrants received every conceivable tax-paid public benefit available out there.

[ArtDodger]

Wizard of Id: Criminal with noose on neck on gallows, “The death penalty is not a deterrent!” The King, “ I’ll believe that when I see you again.”

[dearolddad]

A dead murderer will not commit another murder.

And on the upside is the fact that he can't be pardoned by some bleeding heart judge or governor at some future date.

[louie2]

Before he leaves us, his organs need to be harvested.

[dearolddad]

Not so, it certainly cuts recidivism to zero!

O'Malley doesn't appear to have the intelligence required to grasp such a simple concept.

[Don Corleone]

These same knotheads are the ones that cheer Obama blasting a Muzzie leader to hell with a drone and calling him a brilliant brave CiC. They live in a world of political expediency, not reality.

[KC_Conspirator]

Well why don't we just say that Tsarnaev will be aborted in his 84th (or whatever) trimester? Maybe liberals would feel more comfortable with that?

But seriously, I am curious as to why liberals advocate against the death penalty, when all of their other support goes to abortion to euthanasia to assisted suicide, etc. Your explanation is a decent one, because they do overstep bounds of decency and being civilized. Maybe its just because they hate western Christian, age of enlightenment, civilization and are just very bad people?

[Lurker]

It most definitely effective as punishment, however.

L

[SkyDancer]

As others here have said: It will work for him.

[IronJack]

Then cut the costs and fix the appeals process. It’s liberals who make the system ineffective and then condemn the system for being ineffective.