Today the jury in the Boston Marathon bombing made its decision as to the fate of convicted bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. In a unanimous recommendation, the jury sentenced Tsarnaev to death. Although the Commonwealth of Massachusetts does not have the death penalty, the case was tried
UPDATED 4/13/15 3:29PM: To reflect a correction. The penalty phase begins April 21, not this week. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is dead. We do not need to kill him. Last week, rendering perhaps the most anticlimactic verdict in history, a federal jury in Boston found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Troy Davis was executed at 11:08 EDT today. His trevails through Georgia’s justice system and the federal courts had lasted twenty years after he was convicted and sentenced to death based on eye witness testimony alone. He was accused of killing an off-duty police officer,