The circus trial in Boston is over. The US government spent a fortune on the defense of Djokar-they even flew in a Princeton U. professor who was an expert on Chechnya-he advised the jurors on the fine points of Chechen family life.
At any rate, I think the verdict is a mistake-it will be decades before any execution is carried out-and endless appeals. My question: will he actually be executed? i say no-his sentence will eventually be changed to life. What is your opinion?
Depends on whether he appeals or not. If he does, decades. If not, a few years. Does the guy want to die like McVeigh did?
Don’t more people on death row die of old age than from execution?
Beltway sniper’s execution took place 6 years after the sentencing. And he did appeal all the way to the Supreme Court. I hope Tzarnaev’s doesn’t take much longer.
He is a muslim, it is silly to facilitate his journey to glory and many virgins. He should spend 60 long years staring at bars and stone walls, that would be a much more severe punishment.
I believe it’s generally permanent.
I’m sure it depends on what state you end up convicted in (Muhammad was in VA, lots of people in the CA or FL system end up dying of old age instead of execution). I don’t know what the timeline is for federal convictions.
Darn you Saskatoonian! I was coming in to say that!
That wasn’t a federal case, though. Executions in the federal system are actually pretty rare.
Can someone explain the appeal process to me. The defendant admitted guilt at the beginning of the trial. What is there to appeal?
He contested the death sentence. I believe there is an automatic appeal.
So what does the court consider in an appeal of the death sentence?
This Guardian article suggests at least two grounds of appeal.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: at least a decade of appeals to follow death sentence:
With regard to the question posed by the OP, the same article suggests appeals could take between 10 and 20 years, if he exercises all his appeal rights. In the past 50 years, the federal government has executed only 3 people. There are now 62 federal prisoners on death row.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons needs to find some drugs for the lethal injection first since that is the manner that the feds use and they have no drugs available.
As noted by others above, they have 10-20 years to solve that problem. Including changing the acceptable method(s) of execution. That’ll get done, if not for this guy than for somebody else.
If you read the Qu’ran, you’ll find that they are many gay, male virgins. Who lift weights.
Tim McVeigh was convicted of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1997 and executed in 2001, so it’s not entirely impossible that Tsarnaev could reap his reward in a matter of years rather than decades.
IIRC, McVeigh waved his appeals. One may hope Tsarnaev becomes so inclined as well.
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Saskatchewan: It just feels like life in prison.
joking - it looks very pretty there
I don’t care how long it takes - or if it never happens - its still the appropriate sentence for the crimes committed.
I would like, however, if every day, or random days, someone would drop a backpack off in front of his cell - and that somedays it would do a “jack in the box” style surprise at various times, and other days it just sits there - ticking.