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    Boston Bomber Guilty On All Counts -- Face Death Penalty

    It's time to send him off to hell to be with his brother.

    TSARNAEV CONVICTED ON ALL CHARGES IN BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING


    BOSTON (AP) -- Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted on all charges Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombing by a federal jury that now must decide whether the 21-year-old former college student should be executed.

    Tsarnaev folded his arms, fidgeted and looked down at the defense table as he listened to one guilty verdict after another on all 30 counts against him, including conspiracy and deadly use of a weapon of mass destruction. Seventeen of those counts are punishable by death.

    The verdict - reached after a day and a half of deliberations - was practically a foregone conclusion, given his lawyer's startling admission during opening statements that Tsarnaev carried out the attack with his now-dead older brother, Tamerlan.

    The two shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bombs that exploded near the finish line on April 15, 2013, killed three spectators and wounded more than 260 other people, turning the traditionally celebratory home stretch of the world-famous race into a scene of carnage and putting the city on edge for days.

    Tsarnaev was found responsible not only for those deaths but for that of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer who was shot days later.

    In the trial's next phase, which could begin as early as Monday, the jury will hear evidence on whether Tsarnaev should get the death penalty or spend the rest of his life in prison.

    In a bid to save him from a death sentence, defense attorney Judy Clarke has argued that Tsarnaev, then 19, fell under the influence of his radicalized brother.

    "If not for Tamerlan, it would not have happened," Clarke told the jury during closing arguments.

    Prosecutors, however, portrayed the brothers - ethnic Chechens who moved to the U.S. from Russia more than a decade ago - as full partners in a plan to punish the U.S. for its wars in Muslim countries. Jihadist writings, lectures and videos were found on both their computers, though the defense argued that Tamerlan downloaded the material and sent it to his brother.

    Tamerlan, 26, died when he was shot by police and run over by his brother during a chaotic getaway attempt days after the bombing.

    The government called 92 witnesses over 15 days, painting a hellish scene of torn-off limbs, blood-spattered pavement, ghastly screams and the smell of sulfur and burned hair.

    Survivors gave heartbreaking testimony about losing legs in the blasts or watching people die. The father of 8-year-old Martin Richard described making the agonizing decision to leave his mortally wounded son so he could get help for their 6-year-old daughter, whose leg had been blown off.

    In the courtroom Wednesday, Denise Richard, the boy's mother, wiped tears from her face after the verdict. The boy's father, Bill Richard, embraced one of the prosecutors.

    In Russia, Tsarnaev's father, Anzor Tsarnaev, told The Associated Press in recent days that he would have no comment.

    The others killed in the bombing were Lingzi Lu, a 23-year-old Chinese graduate student at Boston University, and Krystle Campbell, a 29-year-old restaurant manager. MIT police Officer Sean Collier was shot to death at close range days later.

    Some of the most damning evidence included video showing Tsarnaev planting a backpack containing one of the bombs near where the 8-year-old boy was standing, and incriminating statements scrawled inside the dry-docked boat where a wounded and bleeding Tsarnaev was captured days after the tragedy.

    "Stop killing our innocent people and we will stop," he wrote.

    Tsarnaev's lawyers barely cross-examined the government's witnesses and called just four people to the stand over less than two days, all in an effort to portray the older brother as the guiding force in the plot.

    Witnesses testified about phone records that showed Dzhokhar was at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth while his brother was buying bomb components, including pressure cookers and BBs. A forensics expert said Tamerlan's computer showed search terms such as "detonator," "transmitter and receiver," while Dzhokhar was largely spending time on Facebook and other social media sites.

    And an FBI investigator said Tamerlan's fingerprints - but not Dzhokhar's - were found on pieces of the two bombs.

    Clarke is one of the nation's foremost death-penalty specialists and has kept other high-profile defendants off death row. She saved the lives of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski and Susan Smith, the South Carolina woman who drowned her two children in a lake in 1994.

    Tsarnaev's lawyers tried repeatedly to get the trial moved out of Boston because of the heavy publicity and the widespread trauma. But opposition to capital punishment is strong in Massachusetts, which abolished its state death penalty in 1984, and some polls have suggested a majority of Bostonians do not want to see Tsarnaev sentenced to die.

    During the penalty phase, Tsarnaev's lawyers will present so-called mitigating evidence they hope will save his life. That could include evidence about his family, his relationship with his brother, and his childhood in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan and later in the volatile Dagestan region of Russia.

    Prosecutors will present so-called aggravating factors in support of the death penalty, including the killing of a child and the targeting of the marathon because of the potential for maximum bloodshed.

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    It's interesting to see how people talk about putting him to death in this Commonwealth.

    I'm not looking forward to hearing about this POS for the next few years. Shoot him up and burn him.

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    By all accounts his brother was the bigger monster. He just seemed like a dumb kid to me. Oh well, put him in jail with the general population and he won't last long.

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    We all already knew he was guilty. This is no surprise. The real news will come with the sentencing. If they give him the death penalty, everyone who was affected by the Tsarnaevs should be either witnesses or executioners.
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    I can't disagree with you

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    The defense's strategy of throwing his brother under the bus seems to have failed.
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    Yea got hand it to the Sox, they just could not go queitly into the night. Well, they are just post-poning the inevitable.
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    Speaking of bombs, how many countries is the US bombing right now? Incidences like these in Boston might suggest that whatever the number is, it's not enough.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pruneface View Post
    Speaking of bombs, how many countries is the US bombing right now? Incidences like these in Boston might suggest that whatever the number is, it's not enough.
    This is not the forum for that kind of discussion.
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    Yea got hand it to the Sox, they just could not go queitly into the night. Well, they are just post-poning the inevitable.
    - From the 2004 ALCS Game 4 Gamethread. A reminder that no game is over until the final out is recorded, and things will always get better. Misspellings unchanged as a reminder that Yankees fans are just terrible.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Youk Of The Nation View Post
    This is not the forum for that kind of discussion.
    Agreed. My apologies. Rest assured, everything in the world is fine. Unlike 'fat wetback,' the word 'bomb' concatenated, which they are prone to do.
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    A more fitting punishment and more effective deterrent for a terrorist like him would be to sentence him to watch his family be executed and their psssessions burned before killing him. In other words, terrorize the terrorists.
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    Death penalty is dumb. It's actually cheaper for MA to have him live the rest of his life in solitary. Problem being, solitary nowadays includes tv and other nonsense. SCM?
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    Quote Originally Posted by mvp 78 View Post
    Death penalty is dumb. It's actually cheaper for MA to have him live the rest of his life in solitary. Problem being, solitary nowadays includes tv and other nonsense. SCM?
    And of course the governement is all about strict cost control.
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    Just put him in General Pop. He will die a violent, painful, and lonely death.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spudboy View Post
    Just put him in General Pop. He will die a violent, painful, and lonely death.
    Or maybe he will become a celebrity like Manson or Madoff? Maybe he can even convert some inmates to radical islam.
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    Quote Originally Posted by a700hitter View Post
    Or maybe he will become a celebrity like Manson or Madoff? Maybe he can even convert some inmates to radical islam.
    One of those weird instances where I agree with a700.
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    Quote Originally Posted by User Name? View Post
    One of those weird instances where I agree with a700.
    If he is exposed to the general population in a Massachusetts prison he is much more likely to be killed.

    Everyone here is out for blood.

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