Death penalty for Djokar Tsarnaev

[WestPhillyPunisher]

IMO, if giving him the death penalty for killing and wounding so many people is not appropriate, then when is the death penalty ever appropriate? Would you rather have this guy spend 80 years in prison at taxpayer expense until someone, as WestPhilly says, "sticks a shiv in him"? Or have him killed by lethal injection in less than five years (let's face it, they will not be able to delay the inevitable for as long as you might think). I say kill the bastard. His malicious act deserves no less.

I beg to differ. Mumia Abu Jamal spent THIRTY years on death row for the murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner until his sentence was commuted to life without parole. Unless Mr. Shitstain calls off his lawyers and asks for death so he could become a martyr, who knows how long he can drag on the appeals, which, as I stated previously, does nothing but put the families of the victims through more pain. And for what? Some ridiculously outdated and antiquated "eye for an eye" nonsense.

[Turn the Page]

Especially when I'm not even entirely convinced that death is the more cruel and unusual of the two punishments he could be getting. On some level I think he's getting the easy way out.

That's kind of how I look at it, life can be a hell of a lot harder than death sometimes. Especially life in a prison where the other inmates know you injured women and children.

[macattack]

That's kind of how I look at it, life can be a hell of a lot harder than death sometimes. Especially life in a prison where the other inmates know you injured women and children.

You don't think Tsarnaev won't be kept in solitary for precisely that reason?

Also, Timothy McVeigh got the death penalty for the Oklahoma City bombing in 2001, slightly over six years after the attack. There is no way Tsarnaev and his lawyers will delay things longer than that, and in all likelihood it could be shorter than McVeigh's.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

You don't think Tsarnaev won't be kept in solitary for precisely that reason?

Also, Timothy McVeigh got the death penalty for the Oklahoma City bombing in 2001, slightly over six years after the attack. There is no way Tsarnaev and his lawyers will delay things longer than that, and in all likelihood it could be shorter than McVeigh's.

And I ask, what will putting Tsarnaev to death accomplish? Absolutely NOTHING. It won't stop nutcases from wanting to carry out future attacks against the "Great Satan" and, as I said previously, would elevate the lousy shitstain to martyr, if not inspirational status in the minds of said whackjobs. Putting him in a cage to rot and be forgotten would be the better fate.

[Puppetmaker Grae]

Would you rather have this guy spend 80 years in prison at taxpayer expense until someone, as WestPhilly says, "sticks a shiv in him"? Or have him killed by lethal injection in less than five years

A full life term is probably a cheaper option for the taxpayer than a merry go round of appeals and legal wrangling.