Interestingly, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev does not want to die. It was OK for others to be killed by his hand but not him. Some martyr he is! When one is looking at the death sentence, it brings clarity to the mind.
We have been pondering the question, should Tsarnaev be subject to the death penalty should he be convicted? There are pros and cons on each side of the argument. On the side in favor of capital punishment, we will not have to feed, clothe and "store" him for the remainder of his life which could be another 60-80 years. He would give his life for the four people who lives he and his brother took. He could never be used in a prisoner exchange. He would never become a celebrity among Jihadists.
On the other side of the argument, capital punishment will never bring back the four people who were killed. It will make him a martyr for others who believe in Jihad (including his mother.) Also, he might not be as forthcoming about the details of the planning and execution of the bombing if he knows that he will die. If we want the details, he will argue, he needs to be able to live.
We have not decided where we will come down on this question. We are still considering the options, however, if pushed we always come down on the side of capital punishment. So if you want an answer today, that is it, however, we want to hear what you have to say.
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Report: Bombing Suspect's Lawyers Negotiating Plea Deal to Waive Death Penalty
Monday, 29 Apr 2013 07:33 PM
Citing legal sources, correspondent Pete Williams reported on “NBC Nightly News” that prosecutors and lawyers for Tsarnaev “have begun very early discussions about a possible deal in which he could avoid the death penalty in return for a full accounting to the FBI of what happened and why as investigators continue working to find those answers for themselves.”
Dzhokhar was charged with federal terrorism offenses last week following a heated debate in which some prominent Republican lawmakers called for the suspect to be treated as an enemy combatant, which would have potentially given investigators more latitude to question him about other plots.
The suspect suffered multiple gunshot wounds before being taken into custody in a dramatic confrontation with police four days after he and his older brother, Tamerlan, reportedly detonated two bombs near the finish line of the famed race. The elder brother was subsequently killed in a shootout with police.
Meanwhile, Williams also reported that an FBI team conducted a search of the house where Tamerlan’s widow, Katherine Russell, has been living in Rhode Island since the attack.
While Russell has said she was shocked by the attack and had no idea her late husband was planning it, law enforcement officials took a sample of her DNA for comparison against a sample of female DNA found on a fragment of one of the pressure cooker bombs that exploded on April 15, according to Williams.
He cautioned, however, that the DNA may have come from employees at one of the stores where the parts for the bombs were purchased.
Attorney General Eric Holder on Saturday defended the decision to read the surviving suspect his Miranda rights, insisting that the decision was “totally consistent with the laws that we have.”
Early on April 22, U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne B. Bowler showed up at the hospital unannounced with a federal prosecutor and public defender while Tsarnaev was being questioned by the FBI.
“The decision to Mirandize was one that the magistrate made,” Holder told CNN as he arrived at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington over the weekend.
Tsarnaev was under interrogation for about 16 hours when Bowler read him his Miranda rights, according to news reports. The FBI thought it had 36 to 48 hours to question Tsarnaev under the pre-Miranda public-safety exemption.
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