‘Boston in shock over Tsarnaev death penalty’

Well, it’s not like he killed a store clerk during a robbery or hacked off someone’s head in a rit of fealous jage. Those kinds of death penalty cases, Boston is familiar with and opposes.

“The jurors, seven women and five men, cast their eyes down or kept them closed while the sentence was read out.

“None of them glanced in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's direction. It was as if they could not bear to look at him.”

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“The jury's decision has turned liberal Massachusetts upside down.”

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32762999

Probably not on the “upside down” part.

After the Timothy McVeigh trial, my wife said the government should not kill him, because he would become a martyr to people of similar persuasion, plus he should have years to consider the people he killed. With Tsarnaev, though, she said he should die so as not to convert and radicalize others in prison.