Boston

[Minimalist]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/2015051...bcf73.html

Ortiz spoke at a news conference Friday, hours after a jury decided that Tsarnaev would be put to death for the bombings at the 2013 Boston Marathon.

She says, "Today the jury has spoken. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will pay for his crimes with his life."

If ever there was a case which merited capital punishment this was it.  Still, it seems like it is giving him what he wants.  Might have been better to lock him in a cage 23 hours a day for the next 60+ years and let him rot away.

[ignoramus]

and who's gonna pay for that!

[Cato]

Pay per view. No problem finding viewers in a society that makes the Kardashians rich.

[Thumpalumpacus]

and who's gonna pay for that!

The people. At about $48,000 per year, it's a bargain, compared to 20 years of Death Row incarceration (more expensive) plus legal bills for the defense that will certainly top $50,000 per year, plus the expenses of the many trials and hearings.

And as I put it in TTA:

He wants to avoid death. I think we should have given him exactly what he thinks he wants: life in prison. I think he should sit in a cell, 23 hours a day, with one in the courtyard, moldering away, with no hope for a life. No wife, no children, no travel, no hobbies, no choices at all to make in his life outside of when to take a shit, no nothing. No earnest smiles, no home cooking, no watching the bees buzz amongst the springtime flowers. No privacy, no Sunday drives, no kickin' down the cobblestones lookin' for fun and feelin' groovy.


No nothing.

A barren existence, bereft of meaning. He deserves every minute of it, and I'm willing to help foot the bill.

Killing him is a kindness that he does not merit.

[Pyrrho]

Given the mandatory appeals, it might be more expensive to kill him than to just lock him up for life.

[abaris]

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If ever there was a case which merited capital punishment this was it.  Still, it seems like it is giving him what he wants.  Might have been better to lock him in a cage 23 hours a day for the next 60+ years and let him rot away.

Apart from my general opposition to capital punishment, I have no objections either. This is at least a clear cut case with no room for error.