News Tsarnaev Gets Death Penalty in Boston Marathon Bombing

First degree murderers do not deserve empathy on any level.

This isn't about an accidental death, or one occuring at the heat of the moment.

Remember, he admitted to perpetrating the crime.

And let's not forget that Islamic extremist want to die.

The death penalty isn't about deterance or revenge. It's about removing defective genes from the human gene pool.
Evolutionary progression effectively initiated by the murderer himself.
 
beancounter said:
So is loosing perfectly good limbs through no fault of your own.
So is loosing a loved one.
So is lose of hearing or permanent ringing in the ears that can't be medically corrected.
So is a permanent sense of fear.
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Killing Tsarnaev will not magically regrow legs, revive lost loved ones, or repair damaged eardrums. Killing people to show that killing people is wrong is just stupid. An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.
 
Spang said:
Killing Tsarnaev will not magically regrow legs, revive lost loved ones, or repair damaged eardrums. Killing people to show that killing people is wrong is just stupid. An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.
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My reply regarding limbs and loved ones was specifically in reference to your comment about solitary confinment, not the death penalty.
 
beancounter said:
The lack of empathy necessary to kill others in cold blood is indeed part of the genes. The person in question doesn't necessarily have to engage in terrorism.

Callous and unemotional traits - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Such traits indeed seem to have a genetic component. However, did Tsarnaev undergo a psyciatric evaluation? I would think he would have to, in order for the court to have the data necessary to reach a verdict. So I would have thought this would have been mentioned in the news if he were.

On the other hand, if he did have these traits, wouldn't that count as extenuating circumstances, leading to a lesser punishment?

Also, are you saying all terrorists have these traits? What about soldiers who kill civilians as part of collateral damage? I just find that hard to believe.
 
Indian Summer said:
Such traits indeed seem to have a genetic component. However, did Tsarnaev undergo a psychiatric evaluation? I would think he would have to, in order for the court to have the data necessary to reach a verdict. So I would have thought this would have been mentioned in the news if he were.

On the other hand, if he did have these traits, wouldn't that count as extenuating circumstances, leading to a lesser punishment?

Also, are you saying all terrorists have these traits? What about soldiers who kill civilians as part of collateral damage? I just find that hard to believe.
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There is a difference between an act of terrorism and killing during war. On the battlefield, a soldier is in real and imminent danger of being killed. In order to survive, he must kill the other guy first. In all of the cases that I'm aware of, the terrorist (or any first degree murderer for that matter), the killer's life wasn't in imminent danger. To me, that seems like an important distinction.

And there is a difference in intent between killing civilians on purpose, and accidentally killing them.
 
Although there are some individuals who undoubtedly "deserve" to be put to death, an execution on society's behalf diminishes all of us who are members of that society.
 
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Yes ... or your average "Counterstrike" playing person, according to some....

Voluntarily disclosure:

When I was a kid, I often played "Cops and Robbers" or "Cowboys and Native Americans" with my friends, involving the heavy use of toy guns.

Later, I often used various electronic data processing instruments to simulate violent aggressive acts to virtual fellow humans, extra-terrestrials and inanimate objects.

Nevertheless - so far, I could still keep the amount of violent actual shooting rampages I personally perpetrated or participated in to an absolute minimum. Was not even that hard.
 
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