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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/30/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-death-penalty_n_4694745.htmlAttorney General Eric Holder's decision to press for Tsarnaev's execution was widely expected. The twin blasts killed three people and wounded more than 260 others, and 17 of the 30 federal charges against him including using a weapon of mass destruction to kill carry the possibility of the death penalty.
"The nature of the conduct at issue and the resultant harm compel this decision," Holder said in a statement.
Since the federal death penalty was reinstated in 1988, 70 death penalty sentences have been imposed, but only three people have been executed, including Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in 2001. Eight people have been taken off death row by a judicial or executive action, while 59 people remain on death row, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
The last federal execution was in 2003, when Louis Jones Jr. was put to death for the kidnapping and murder of 19-year-old Army Pvt. Tracie McBride.
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hlthe2b
(102,379 posts)Not surprised, but I have always opposed the DP and feel no differently now..
The spectacle that followed the McVeigh trial will be quadrupled with this one... Lock him away into eternal obscurity--that would be far more fitting...
frazzled
(18,402 posts)I wish this were not the case, despite the fact that I believe he deserves the harshest, most implacable punishment available. I just don't believe the state should be in the business of committing cold-blooded murder itself through its legal system.
I know I'm probably in the vast minority on this, however. My sympathies lie entirely with the victims of this horrendous act of irrationality and violence. But I would still prefer there to be no federal death penalty at all.
alsame
(7,784 posts)1000words
(7,051 posts)Do they set up an interrogation and have a few FBI agents empty their service revolvers?
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)Dzhokhar made some bad choices.