As an imprisoned religious role model, Dzhokhar’s best years as a progressive icon and jihad recruiter are still ahead of him.
Justice Massachusetts style coughed up another hairball on 15 May; Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Muslim Chechen terrorist who, along with his brother, detonated two bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 2013. The older brother was killed by police, the younger Tsaranev is now a convict consigned to death row. Dzhokhar’s trial was speedy. His death may come from old age.
US Attorney Carmen Ortiz tells us Tsarnaev will “pay with his life.” In fact, the chances that Mr. Tsaranev will be executed, in Boston or anywhere else, are slim to none. Massachusetts hasn’t used the death penalty in 70 years. A death sentence in America is a legal placebo, a celebrity annionting, and a bone thrown to that segment of the electorate who still believes in capital punishment and the Easter Bunny.
[Homicide statistics provide some reality therapy on the matter. There are approximately 15,000 homicides in the US per annum. Nearly half of all murders go unsolved each year. Not counting abortions, there were 35 legal executions in 2014. How is justice served for the remaining 14,965 first degree murder victims every year? Ironically, the burdens of murder, legal or not, fall mostly on victims, those least able to defend themselves.
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