Good Job Boston!

From USA Today:
"Boston Marathon bomber sentenced to death"

 

A jury has sentenced Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death by execution. Tsarnaev looked straight ahead, showing little emotion. The jury's decision closed one of the most painful chapters in Boston's history. The judgment comes from the same group of seven women and five men who found Tsarnaev guilty on all 30 counts related to the April 15, 2013, bomb attacks and four-day manhunt. The jury found him responsible for killing four people, seriously maiming 17 and injuring hundreds more. In the end, it all came down to one question: Should Tsarnaev be put to death or spend the rest of his life in a federal prison with no possibility of parole? In reaching their verdict, the jurors weighed 12 aggravating factors against 21 mitigating factors. They were charged to consider the suffering Tsarnaev caused, his intent, his character and his relationships, among other things.  The verdict ends an extraordinary trial that brought amputee victims and a bereaved father face-to-face with the 21-year-old man who tore their bodies and lives apart in an act of Islamic terrorism two years earlier. In the first phase of the trial, as jurors considered guilt or innocence, they visited the boat where he hid, bled and carved in wood what prosecutors called his manifesto. "Stop killing our innocent people and we will stop," Tsarnaev wrote in a reference to Muslims' suffering around the world.

 

 

^ The only people we should feel sorry for today are the 4 people that were murdered and the 280 that were wounded - along with their families. It is good to see that justice was done - especially considering that Massachusetts and its people (I went to school there) tend to be overtly liberal and don't always care about doing what is right. That was not the case here. I know there are lots of appeals and all that coming up but that won't deter from today's verdict. ^

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/05/14/boston-marathon-bombing-sentence/27336839/