Boston bomber sentenced to death

[PorkChop]

Live updates: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live ... on-bombing

[Viazon]

Good.

[Everlong]

Not at all a fan of the death penalty, but I'm not exactly going to mourn this guy either.

[xgamr]

I think a better sentence is life with no parole imo

[Viazon]

Not at all a fan of the death penalty, but I'm not exactly going to mourn this guy either.

I have mixed feelings about the death penalty. I mean, I think, fuck guys like these. Why do they deserve to live after what they have done? But if we want them killed, would it make us any better than them? Sure, they kill innocent people and that of course is a huge difference. But who is anybody to take another persons life?

Still, my original post remains the same. Good.

[AkydefGoldberg]

I think a life sentence would have sufficed but a death penalty doesn't have that martyr feel to it because the brothers, IIRC, were not part of a bigger terrorist group so it probably won't be capitalised upon by any group saying "Our martyr Dzokhar" etc so but also, a life sentence wouldn't elicit that much of a response as well.

Hope it brings closure to the victims' families.

[War Daddy]

Hope it's public.

[lyonssv]

Anything else would have been a travesty.