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In reply to the discussion: If proven guilty do you think the bomber should get the death penalty? [View all]Jennicut
(25,415 posts)39. No death penalty in Mass.
None in New England except NH. CT ended death penalty last year, though it is not retroactive. The two men that killed a mother and her two daughters in my hometown of Cheshire in a home invasion will still be put to death. I have mixed feelings about that. I would say that case was more horrific (rape, molestation, being burned to death, strangulation) then the bombings. Alhough a child died in Boston, he was not specifically targeted.
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If proven guilty do you think the bomber should get the death penalty? [View all]
hrmjustin
Apr 2013
OP
OMG I bet that senator likes to pluck the wings off of flies. Talk about a creep.
hrmjustin
Apr 2013
#24
But they want to die in a certain, heroic way. Not as a prisoner in a monkey suit...
Honeycombe8
Apr 2013
#77
No. Assuming he is found guilty, he should receive life without the possibility of parole. nt
madinmaryland
Apr 2013
#46
Sorry. I just assumed that there would be at least four counts of murder in addition to the
madinmaryland
Apr 2013
#70
No it is not. Treason implies working for a foreign power, a known state actor
nadinbrzezinski
Apr 2013
#86
I'm not sure a non-citizen can be convicted of treason. But yes, the death penalty is called for.
Honeycombe8
Apr 2013
#78
I heard on TV he's a "permanent resident" immigrant. I found the definition.
Honeycombe8
Apr 2013
#89
Ahh. I did not know that. So the older brother didn't seek citizenship? Interesting.nt
Honeycombe8
Apr 2013
#92
No, it isn't. There's a difference between what happened in Boston...
Spider Jerusalem
Apr 2013
#113
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Apr 2013
#60
NO - he's too young - and frankly the picture we have of him so far is a bit mind boggling
Douglas Carpenter
Apr 2013
#94
NO .. I would like to see him locked up. forever. No possibility of parole.
littlewolf
Apr 2013
#108