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insomniasexx  ·  3465 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Full Remarks by the Judge Who Sentenced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to Death

    The rejection of the defense's proposal to move the trial just seemed petty to me.

I agree. Additionally, I felt it was a move made to give the greater Boston / Massachusetts area some justice or payback and feel ownership over the situation so they could heal and go back to being Boston. There's no facts....or really anything..... backing up that thought, though.

    I don't think anyone should get the death penalty, but that's a story for another comment another day, likely.

Indeed. We could argue that all day. In fact, I could argue with myself all day. I'm on the fence and, shamefully, tend to flip flop depending on the circumstance.

It's easiest to talk about punishment for cases in the same way jurors are instructed to. Basically, regardless of what you think of the death penalty....well here:

    Neither are you to be concerned with the wisdom of any rule of law stated by the court. Regardless of any opinion you may have as to what the law ought to be, it would be a violation of your sworn duty to base a verdict upon any other view of the law than that given in these instructions of the court; just as it would be a violation of your sworn duty, as judges of the facts, to base a verdict upon anything but the evidence in the case. Justice through trial by jury must always depend upon the willingness of each individual juror to seek the truth as to the facts from the same evidence presented to all the jurors; and to arrive at a verdict by applying the same rules of law, as given in the instructions of the court.

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