Boston marathon bombing

[Yrkoon]

[exploited]

By the way, you are confusing retribution and revenge.

[John Galt]

bizzare situation causing me to agree with yrkoon but he's right

you think about things you don't know answers to. it's why songs get stuck in your head actually. you keep on repeating the chorus because you can't finish the song. your brain wants to figure it out. depression is in part caused by and in part 'helpful' in being stuck on a problem and thinking about it. some people call that obsession though, and yeah, it can lead to bad things. you end up really trying to figure out what happened though and you could, potentionally if you do figure it out, emerge from your state in a much better situation.

yeah people might want revenge right after it happens. lets say they have it and he's dead and then they get no answers. they'll end up, years from now, still haunted by it and unable to explain it. and not just the direct victims. remember, those people, while direct victims of the incident, are just some of the victims of terror. the victims of terror are all of us, who maybe now think twice about going to sporting events out of fear for their own safety. if we can explain it, we can help the healing and we can help get over this. the direct victims might be able to sleep better at night. and everyone will be able to enjoy things in life like running marathons and cheering for others running marathons.

in order to explain it, we need him alive. we need him to give up everything to try to make up for what he did. it needs to be very public. everything about any subject, he tells all. but even when he does that he can't make up for it. while it does help, it still does not right the wrong. so then, after he is confronted by his victims... some unable to do much, others the grieving parents of a dead child, still others standing tall on titanium legs, he will be punished. and the only punishment that fits this crime is death.

[exploited]

I agree Galt. Retribution is better than revenge. But it is most certainly not the first, second or thousandth reaction. It takes time, which is precisely why we have a justice system in the first place.

[John Galt]

apparently he's not being mirandized -- he's not being given an attorney, for now... "public safety exception" (the public safety exception applies where circumstances present a clear and present danger to the public's safety and the officers have reason to believe that the suspect has information that can end the emergency, so says the ussc)

[John Galt]

he was basically sitting in a pool of his own blood all day thinking about what had happened, hiding in the boat

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/20/us/boston ... ?hpt=hp_t1

because of the lockdown, the owner of the boat didn't go outside all day. then they lifted the lockdown at 6, he went outside and noticed the tarp on his boat was flapping, to which he investigated and now the suspect is in custody. this is interesting because the lockdown delayed his capture. i was listening to the radio news on my way home and they were lifting the lockdown and then a half hour later everything went crazy again and that's why.

[Pebble]

[PoS]

MA has no death penalty so he's probably gonna get life imprisonment. But I doubt he will last, if they put him in general population he will get shanked by the other inmates.

[The Tooth]

Federal crime + Federal death penalty = possibility of execution. Isn't that how it works?

[dontworrybehappy]

There is currently one inmate on death row in Massachusetts for a federal crime, and 3 federal executions since 1988 and only 59 actually on federal death row. The problem lies, in a state that has no death penalty, there will be no way of executing the inmate. This guy would not be executed.

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/federal-death-penalty