Everyone one on the Boston jury was pro-capital punishment so it is not surprising that Tsarnaev got the death penalty. It was not going to come out any other way.
I guess I never will understand how any rational person can think that killing someone you have in custody makes any moral or logical sense. Put in its simplest form it is just revenge and not much beyond cold blooded murder. We make a big deal about our legal rituals and all that claptrap but when you get down to the nitty gritty we are still pretty primitive.
As I have said many times here, I don't believe in capitol punishment under any circumstances. Not for this young man or for anyone else. There is not a valid argument for why more death is the right thing to do.
