The Boston Marathon At Ease
"Now he will go away and we will be able to move on. Justice."
"In his own words, 'an eye for an eye'."
Sydney Corcoran, Boston bombing victim
"The ultimate penalty is a fitting punishment for this horrific crime, and we hope that the completion of this prosecution will bring some measure of closure to the victims and their families."
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch
"I know this kid to be compassionate. I know this kid to be forthgoing. He’s a great athlete, a sportsman, he’s never been in trouble. He was just generous, he was compassionate, he was thoughtful."
Larry Aaronson, history teacher, Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School
A courtroom sketch shows accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in court on the second day of his trialHe is now 21 years of age, five years younger than his older brother Tamerlan, when the defence attorneys in his trial on terrorist and murder charges, claim that at age 19, he was under the malign influence of his brother, and as such not really responsible for the carnage that ensued when the two brothers dropped home-made but extremely effective improved explosive devices constructed from pressure cookers, to unleash hell on the annual celebrated Boston run.
Execution by lethal injection will be a lot more humane than the violent deaths and injuries the two Chechen-born brothers inflicted on innocent people. Through their deliberate acts of terrorism the 'kid' and his brother caused the death of three people, and wounding over 260 others from the explosive effect of the shrapnel they had packed their pressure-cooker bombs with on April 15, 2013.
Two years later, a jury of a dozen people, ordinary Americans, sitting in judgement of a young man who lived in their country, attended a college there, enjoyed a circle of friends, and had the freedoms guaranteed in the American way of life, yet chose to slaughter innocent strangers rather than live among them in peace, sentenced him to death.
He had been convicted of all 30 federal charges brought against him, last month. Those charges included use of a weapon of mass destruction, and the killing of an MIT police officer. No fewer than seventeen of those charges levelled against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev carried the possibility of the death penalty. And now it will be imposed upon him.
It was pointed out by prosecutors that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev cared so little for the impact of the explosives that he casually dropped one of the pressure-cooker bombs on the pavement in direct proximity to a group of children, the result being the death of an eight-year-old boy who had attended the Boston Marathon with his family.
A photograph of Tsarnaev was displayed at the trial's opening showing him giving the finger to a security camera in his jail cell soon after his arrest. "This is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev -- unconcerned, unrepentant and unchanged", said prosecutor Nadine Pellegrin. His equally casual behaviour in the days after the bombing and before his arrest, attest to his cold disinterest in the butchery he caused, as a 'kid' of 19.
Labels: Immigration, Islamism, Terrorism, United States
posted by Pieface @ Saturday, May 16, 2015
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