Currently the jury is in the penalty phase of for the trial of the Boston Bomber, and they need to decide between life in prison or the death penalty.
Me personally? I say give him life in prison, based on what he'd written while holed up in that boat he was hiding in, because he stated in the writing he'd left there that he was jealous of his brother who had just been killed, because his brother got to be a martyr before him. If we were to award him the death penalty, not only would it be tied up in the courts for several appeals, costing the taxpayers more money and not giving closure to those victims of the bombing. If they know he's in jail for the rest of his natural, and they are told that he's not going to be martyred, then they can have closure.
Besides.........................if you really want him off the planet, it's simple enough....................give him life in prison with no chance of parole and then place him in general population.
The convicts will take care of it for you.
Me personally? I say give him life in prison, based on what he'd written while holed up in that boat he was hiding in, because he stated in the writing he'd left there that he was jealous of his brother who had just been killed, because his brother got to be a martyr before him. If we were to award him the death penalty, not only would it be tied up in the courts for several appeals, costing the taxpayers more money and not giving closure to those victims of the bombing. If they know he's in jail for the rest of his natural, and they are told that he's not going to be martyred, then they can have closure.
Besides.........................if you really want him off the planet, it's simple enough....................give him life in prison with no chance of parole and then place him in general population.
The convicts will take care of it for you.