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Today's Poll: If convicted, should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev receive the death penalty?

By Howard B. Owens
Jeff Allen

Debra, he is not getting the rights of a criminal, he is getting the rights of a US Citizen. I trust that he will be rightly tried, found guilty, and come to the same fate as Timothy McVeigh...as it should be.

Apr 25, 2013, 9:42am Permalink
Cheryl Wilmet

I only said no because he is 19 and would be in prison forever to reflect on the disgusting choices he made. And with that pretty hair he could probably find a nice big BOYFRIEND to take care of him. Other than that, I do believe in the death penalty.

Apr 25, 2013, 8:54am Permalink
Tim Miller

Yeah! Where's the right of THE PEOPLE to string this guy up before a trial, rip out his entrails, and castrate him in public in front of THE PEOPLE?!?

Oh, right... Because regardless of whether this guy has said he did it, the next guy might be innocent, or the next guy might be YOU...

Apr 25, 2013, 9:10am Permalink
Jack Dorf

This will be under Federal jurisdiction. Even if he spends life in prison it would most likely be in Florence Colorado which is a supermax facility that is solitary confinement. That in some ways can be worse than the death penalty. I for one believe in the death penalty for this crime.

Apr 25, 2013, 10:27am Permalink
Rich Richmond

Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev be tried as a citizen; yes?

Is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev a Muslim Terrorist despite being a citizen; yes?

Did the Obama administration’s FBI and Justice Department drop the ball on this big time like they did with “Fast & Furious” and Benghazi; yes?

Will the murdered and maimed victims ever receive justice regardless if Dzhokhar Tsarnaev gets life in prison or the death sentence; no?

How long shall we continue to allow American Citizen Terrorist Muslums to express their religious beliefs to murder infidels and make a mockery of our Constitution.....

Apr 25, 2013, 12:12pm Permalink
Bob Harker

Although I strongly support the death penalty, I just as strongly oppose the way it is currently administered. The offender gets a good meal, is strapped down, gets a quick high and expires. The innocents in Boston or any other victim or a murderer received no such graciousness. The death penalty is supposed to be the extreme punishment. Bring back hangings or the gallows. Make them suffer as those they made suffer.

Given the "softness" of the way it is done today, life in solitary would be more painful. At least for a sane person.

Apr 25, 2013, 7:42pm Permalink
Daniel Jones

These extremists want martyrdom, they desire nothing more than to die and hopefully in a public way so that they can be elevated to demigod status. Lock them in a supermax facility in solitary confinement for life, with no hope of parole, and only to be let outside for an hour a day. That fate, where they drift into obscurity, would be far worse than the death penalty for them. We should not give them the satisfaction of becoming a hero.

Apr 25, 2013, 9:01pm Permalink
carol grasso

I'd like to sit down and talk to his mother!+*!%*^. Then send her boy home in pieces just like the ones he left behind here. My boys have fought every war there has been in the last 30 yrears and she wants to blame our country for what happened to her boys. Yeh right! I say close the borders and bring my boy back to this country and protect us here.

Apr 26, 2013, 12:07am Permalink
John Woodworth JR

Jeff, he was Nationalized US Citizen in which he pledged his alliance to the USA. Apparently his alliance is non existent displayed through his act of terrorism. His oath was broken so, should his US Citizenship.

Apr 26, 2013, 8:35pm Permalink
John Woodworth JR

Meanwhile it is our tax dollars that house, clothe, educate and feed him. So, basically he gets three hots and a cot with a free gym membership and direct tv. Really Cheryl because, he is 19? What about the 8 years old that will never see 9? He will not suffer or give two shiits on what he did. If able to he would do it again and laugh at us for allowing it to happen again. You want him to suffer strap explosives to his legs and let him bleed out in a pig farm. Look at mommy, OMG she is whacked just like her sons. America took my sons, boo hoo! Islamic Radical beliefs took her sons! Of course the FBI and Police had nothing better to do than setup her sons and stage the videos and photos of them as well. Sarcasm!

Apr 26, 2013, 9:22pm Permalink
John Woodworth JR

Carol GOD bless your sons and I will pray for their safe return to you. Chechens are a violent people. Read the book "Terror in Beslan." That book will enlighten you on just how violent and heartless these people can be.

Apr 26, 2013, 9:28pm Permalink

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