Tsarnaev guilty on 30 counts over 2013 Boston Marathon bombing

This guy if placed in the general prison population may not survive a year. Cowardly random attack on women and children does not gain prison respect. I feel sorry for the kid but he chose to follow his big bro....now he pays a price of a wasted life!

penalty phase wii begin next monday, CBS our local channel. So if at least one of 30 penatlies is death sentence, his future will be in lethal injection.

Not necessarily - Massachusetts has not executed anyone since 1947.

I feel sorry for the kid but he chose to follow his big bro....now he pays a price of a wasted life!

I feel far from sorry for this idiot. He is old enough to make his own decisions and far from a kid.

"Minutes later, (after killing a tiny child and maiming 260) Tsarnaev casually bought milk, then headed to the gym, laughing and joking with friends and posting a message on Twitter calling himself a “stress free kind of guy,” prosecutors said." - article

A remorseless killer with zero regard for anyone.

Massachusetts eliminated the death penalty in 1984. This is a Federal wrap. Death penalty can be invoked on any of seventeen of the thirty convictions. As others have noted, appeals are possible but there will be no escape from the death penalty because there is no room for mercy for rabid animals.

Perhaps a life sentence would be a deterrent to future jihadists. The prison inmates will perform their own justice and the outcome will be far less preferable than an injection.

There is no justice if justice is left to prison vigilantes.

@kcjapan - For a person who murdered, maimed, and injured hundreds of innocent civilians? I would completely disagree.

From Boston, legal expert stated that Prosecutor will give case and defense attorney will give short brief. Only one death penalty is needed. In the death sentence verdict. all jurors have to agree for death sentence. If one oppose, no death penaty that is another reason 30 death sentense phase next week by DA. It does not matter when last time death sentemce was performed. Death sentence is not illegal in Mass/. accoding to Boston area legal experts.

"I would completely disagree." with "There is no justice if justice is left to prison vigilantes." - comments

The point of the statement: 'There is no justice if justice is left to prison vigilantes.' is an important distinction. It isn't justice to release the guilty party into the prison system for the inmates to murder in retribution.

Justice means the guilty answers for their crime and society imposes the penalty.

In this case, the guilty is deserving and qualifies for the death penalty in seventeen counts. Inmates aren't societies' executioners. The assumption that they should be or that their murder of the guilty is justice is appropriate is flawed.

Prisoners are prisoners. An executioner exacts the justice the court determines.

I completely agree. We have a legal system with justice decided by a court. I don't know why comments about prisoners serving justice in the form of murder or rape or physical abuse is constantly raised. I am not denying that injustices toward prisoners happens, but cheering those acts of violence is not part of our justice system. It is likely that anyone writing of the "prisoner justice" acts has never stepped foot into a prison and knows of no actual case of prisoners serving "justice" other than a lot of Hollywood films from the 1930's onward.

kcjapan wrote "prisoners are not society's executioners." Excellent. I also have no sympathy for this person nor do I deny his crimes. Prisoners are likely in there trying to do what is necessary to be released from prison at some point, not in there to commit a crime that would only extend their term.

kcjapanApr. 09, 2015 - 10:42AM JST

*"I would completely disagree." with "There is no justice if justice is left to prison vigilantes." - comments

The point of the statement: 'There is no justice if justice is left to prison vigilantes.' is an important distinction. It isn't justice to release the guilty party into the prison system for the inmates to murder in retribution.

Justice means the guilty answers for their crime and society imposes the penalty.

In this case, the guilty is deserving and qualifies for the death penalty in seventeen counts. Inmates aren't societies' executioners. The assumption that they should be or that their murder of the guilty is justice is appropriate is flawed.

Prisoners are prisoners. An executioner exacts the justice the court determines*

Some inmates are put into a single cell. Some inmates who has mental problems get a cellmate so that he/she will not use dirly clothes plastic bag to suicides. These inmates are there for their crime and they are not executioner. Vigilante? Prison officials get fired if such vigilante occur in its jail. There is no need to vigilante. Inmate knows if they perform vigilante to kill someone in cell, they will be in death sentence quicker,

Three times murder, many injured with losing limbs... Policeman killed. This guy deserves capital punishment! Make an example of him.

I gather the guy and his brother had a lot of issues integrating with American society, since we're not as kind as we could be of newcomers, especially when they're from an "enemy" group like Muslims. If only he'd chosen to find a different way to express his frustration, cause harming people will get you zero sympathy.

Earlier Tsarnaev had given his lawyer, Judy Clarke, a half-fist-bump. She didn't return it. This afternoon he was more subdued. He stood and paid close attention as the verdicts were read, occasionally rocking from side to side. He put his hands in his pockets then took them out quickly. He has long lashes, and he blinked a lot. When he was led out of the room, he walked quickly, as before, but his step was less springy.

This juvenile has no sense about the gravity of his crime. If they let him live, later he will boast about his murders in a fashionable, pseudo-cool way while chewing bubblegum. Guys like this don't know remorse.

Life in prison without a chance for parole sounds pretty good provided that it's in a small cell with only a toilet and bed. No TV or literature of any kind and just 4 walls in a tiny cell to look at. Besides, Tsarnaev probably wants to receive the death penalty and die like a jihadist, so why give him what he wants anyway. Let him die slowly and, hopefully, with a sense of shame. It might also be a good idea to place before and after pictures of the victims on the walls of his cell. If Tsarnaev were to die now without feeling any sense of shame for his actions, then what's the point? I'd rather see him grow old and die slowly until the realization of the tragedy he caused can finally sink in.

By the way, he's being tried in federal court which means he could be transferred to or put to death in any federal penitentiary across the U.S.

Burn this! Dust off old Sparky & pull the switch!

Fry him. & fry him quickly. Don't waste anymore taxpayer $ to keep him inmate.

@stormcrow, His cell will have a shower, too. US Justice of Massachusetts will presides the court procedure. The walls consists of cages like a lion cage except one wall just like any jails.

Tsarnaev guilty on 30 counts over 2013 Boston Marathon bombing

This terrorist piece of filth and for that matter all other terrorists deserve no mercy. These animals deserve the worst kinds of punishment. Lethal injection is too merciful, a firing squad is too merciful and even the electric chair is too merciful.

These psychopathic animals want to live in the Dark Ages, so their punishment should fit the era. So, this piece of filth deserves to be strapped to 4 horses and quartered.

The only things these animals understand is terror, then terror is what their punishment should be!

StrangerlandApr. 09, 2015 - 09:06AM JST Not necessarily - Massachusetts has not executed anyone since 1947.

True, but there is just one incy wincy little mistake with your statement.

This isn't a state case, it's a Federal one and the last person to be executed by the Federal government was in 2003.

Now, President Obama will be the first President to have a whack at ending this piece of filths life. I'll just say that he may not have the intestinal fortitude of giving the green light to end this terrorist's life!

But, the next President (R) most likely will!

As always, I am here to help.....

The disunited states of America as I call it since there is no uniformity needs to have a judicial rules and sentences that are the same throughout the entire country. None of that well in Oregon we don't approve of the death penalty while in Texas we string em up. Too many violent prisoners on death rows that all should be put into the business end of a meat packing plant He deserves swift justice and the death penalty without question.

"his "faith" is irrelevant to his slaughters."

His faith has everything to do with his slaughter. The brothers themselves streets the killing of fellow Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan motivated their attack. As police closed in on him, he scrawled: "When you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims"

"the worst attack in the United States since the 9/11 hijackings."

This is debatable. Another non-radicalized (and also a "moderate") Muslim, Major Hassan, murdered 13 people and injured 30 at Ft. Hood in 2009. Again, for the same reasons as the Tsunaraev brothers.

@Toshiko

Your idea sounds like a good one. Then he wouldn't even need a shower and you could just spray him down with a hose once in a while, but that idea would never fly on a legal basis because it would be considered cruel and unusual punishment. Maybe the death penalty would be the best thing for Tsarnaev.

It really is a shame how many lives and dreams he and his brother destroyed at a popular international event which is meant to bring people from everywhere together as fellow human beings.

@Hawkeye. Right, he deserves swift justice.

You mention Texas, ahh- there's a real state. Texas (5th circuit courts) deliver swift justice. Tsunaraev should be immediately extradited to TX. Don't mess with Texas.

Unfortunately the blue states' circuit courts are more of a "Circus" rather than delivering justice or death sentences to terrorists and criminals.