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Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sentenced to death
RT,
15
May, 2015
Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev, the man convicted of carrying out the Boston Marathon
bombing and subsequent crimes in April 2013, was sentenced to death
by a Massachusetts jury after 14.5 hours over 2.5 days of
deliberation.
On
April 8, almost exactly two years after the bombing occurred, the
21-year-old ethnic Chechen was found guilty of all 30 charges he
faced, 17 of which were eligible for the death penalty. On Friday, he
was sentenced to death in some ‒ but not all ‒ of the capital
charges.
The
same jury of seven women and five men who condemned Tsarnaev for the
crimes was also responsible for deciding his punishment.
Tsarnaev
had no reaction as the jury condemned him to die for his actions,
media in the courtroom reported.
MORE: Awaiting announcement of life or death for #Tsarnaev in #BostonMarathon bombing trial sptnkne.ws/kXA pic.twitter.com/TuHHwCwLb5
@SputnikInt @LionelMedia Wolverine looks on, intently.
“We
know all too well that no verdict can heal the souls of those who
lost loved ones, nor the minds and bodies of those who suffered
life-changing injuries from this cowardly attack,” Attorney General
Loretta Lynch said in a statement. “But the ultimate penalty is a
fitting punishment for this horrific crime and we hope that the
completion of this prosecution will bring some measure of closure to
the victims and their families.”
Los Angeles Times
Dzhokhar #Tsarnaev sentenced to the death penalty for role in Boston Marathon bombing http://lat.ms/1H7oaLh
Tsarnaev’s
attorneys had argued vociferously against capital punishment.
"If
you sentence him to life, this is where he will be," defense
attorney David Bruck said during opening statements in the trial's
penalty phase, referring to a photo of a federal supermax prison in
Colorado, which is also the home to several convicted terrorists, NBC
News reported.
"Maybe
we could've shown you this and stopped," Bruck said. "He'd
go here and be forgotten. His legal case would be over for good, and
no martyrdom. That might be, that should be, a vote for life."
The
parents of 8-year-old Martin Richard, the youngest of the four people
who died during the Tsarnaev brothers’ multi-day spree of terror,
had also supported life in prison over the death penalty. Other
victims and their families supported the death penalty, though, NBC
News reported.
Bruck
told jurors there's no punishment Tsarnaev can receive that would be
equal to the suffering of the victims, according to AP.
"There
is no evening the scales," he said. "There is no point in
trying to hurt him as he hurt because it can't be done."
Prosecutors
argued the brothers were equal players, and that it did not matter
when the younger Tsarnaev was radicalized, the Boston Globe reported.
Assistant
US Attorney Nadine Pellegrini told jurors that they will probably
hear about Tsarnaev’s dysfunctional family life, and they will hear
stories of him at school events, dances, and at camp, but she argued,
“nothing will explain his cruelty and his indifference.”
“This
is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, unconcerned, unrepentant, and unchanged,” she
said, showing the jury a photo of the convicted bomber in his holding
cell on July 10, 2013, the day of his arraignment. He is flipping his
middle finger at the camera. “Without remorse, he remains untouched
by the grief and the loss that he caused. And without assistance, he
remains the unrepentant killer that he is.”
TODAY
#BostonBombing jury sees photo of defiant #Tsarnaev flashing middle finger to security cam http://tdy.sg/1zJT4Xl
The
Boston jury sided with the prosecution despite the fact that the
death penalty is not popular in Massachusetts, where a convict has
not been executed since 1947. Capital punishment was ruled
unconstitutional in the commonwealth in 1984, but that ban isn’t
applicable to this case because Tsarnaev was tried in federal court.
A
Boston Globe poll published in April showed that less than 20 percent
of state residents favored death for Tsarnaev ‒ down from 33
percent in September 2013, five months after the bombings.
Tsarnaev
was convicted of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction,
possession and use of a firearm during a crime of violence,
conspiracy to bomb a place of public use, bombing in a place of
public use, conspiracy to maliciously destroy property, and malicious
destruction of property by means of an explosive, all of which caused
death.
If #Tsarnaev had stayed on academic track at UMass Dartmouth, he would be 40 miles South graduating with the senior class this very minute.
He
was also found guilty of 11 charges in which the crimes did not
result in death. Those counts included carjacking, resulting in
serious bodily injury; interference with commerce by threats and
violence; possession and use of a firearm during a crime of violence;
and use of a weapon of mass destruction.
The
firearms and weapons of mass destruction used included a Ruger P95
9mm semiautomatic handgun, three pressure-cooker bombs and three pipe
bombs.
During
the first ‒ or guilt ‒ phase of the trial, Tsarnaev’s lawyer,
Judy Clarke, acknowledged that her client “fully participated” in
the bombing, conceding that it was her client shown in surveillance
footage leaving behind a bomb hidden in a backpack.
However,
she argued, he was an impressionable young man in the sway of his
older brother, Tamerlan, who had become a radicalized Muslim and whom
she accused of masterminding the attack. Clarke said her client
should thus be spared the death penalty.
Only
two members of the jury felt that Tsarnaev would not have acted
without his brother’s influence.
On April 15, 2013 twin blasts, 12 seconds apart, rocked the finish line of the storied Boston Marathon. Over 260 people were injured, with three killed, including an eight-year-old boy. Four days later, in the early morning hours, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer was killed and a man was carjacked, leading law enforcement on a manhunt from Cambridge, Massachusetts to the nearby suburb of Watertown.
By
that point, officials had identified the two suspects as Tsarnaev,
then 19, and his older brother Tamerlan, 26.
In
Watertown, the suspects engaged in a firefight with law enforcement,
during which Tamerlan was killed. The area was placed on lockdown as
SWAT teams from multiple local and federal jurisdictions searched for
the surviving brother. He was eventually found hiding in a boat on a
resident’s property.
Tsarnaev
still needs to be formally sentenced by Judge George O’Toole. He
will then likely report to the US Bureau of Prison’s death row
facility in Terre Haute, Indiana. At 21, he will become the youngest
person on federal death row, which currently contains 61 prisoners.
The
defense is expected to appeal the sentence, a process that will
likely drag on for several years. If the sentence is upheld by all
subsequent courts, Tsarnaev will die via lethal injection
Tsarnaev
Sentenced to Death: The Boston Bombing and the Tsarnaev Trial –
Lies, Anomalies and Inconsistencies
By
Julie Lévesque
15
May, 2015
Today,
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been sentenced to death on some counts,
including “the use of a weapon of mass destruction (pressure cooker
bomb #2) resulting in death” and “destruction of property by
means of an explosive (pressure cooker bomb #2), resulting in
death,”The
Guardian reports.
Global
Research invites you to take a moment to look at some of the best
articles published on the Boston Marathon Bombing and the Tsarnaev
brothers, all of which reveal lies, anomalies and inconsistencies in
the official story.
Probably
the most disturbing aspect of Tsarnaev’s trial is that, although he
pleaded not guilty, his attorney conceded that he in fact was guilty.
Joachim
Hagopian explains:
Despite Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleading not guilty to the 30 counts (17 carrying the death penalty) he was charged within a week after the April 15th bombings last year, his lead defense attorney Judy Clark several days ago conceded to the jury that her client was guilty in her closing argument. Apparently blaming the dead brother whose due process was denied became Dzhokhar’s only defense strategy. The defense team insisted that he was coerced and bullied by his older brother into committing alleged acts of terrorism. Considering no real solid proof other than photos placing Dzhokhar and older brother Tamerlan both wearing backpacks at the scene of the crime where the two bombs exploded was even presented at the trial, no justice for either the Tsarnaevs nor the many victims can possibly come from this guilty verdict.
If the purpose of the US judicial system in criminal trials is to ensure that all factual evidence surrounding an alleged crime or crimes be accurately and fairly presented so that the jurors can properly assess the best semblance of the truth as presented by both prosecution and defense in order for the jury to adjudicate and decide a defendant’s true guilt or innocence, this trial was a complete travesty of justice. (Joachim Hagopian,Boston Marathon Bombings’ Guilty Verdict Exposed as a Gross Travesty of Justice, Global Research, April 12, 2014)
As
stated in an article published by WhoWhatWhy in
December 2014, we also learned during the trial that his late brother
Tamerlan had been accused of a triple murder without any evidence to
support the accusations. It was also suggested that Dzhokhar may have
been involved.
For nearly any crime requiring a “Whodunnit” answer in Boston around the time of the April 15, 2013 Marathon bombing, the authorities answered: The Tsarnaev brothers.
One egregious crime pinned on them was a grisly Sept. 11, 2011, triple murder in Waltham, Mass.
Now, prosecutors in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have delivered a shocking reversal. They admit to having no evidence that his dead brother, Tamerlan, was involved in the slayings.
That wasn’t the case right after the bombing: law enforcement fingered Tamerlan as the perpetrator, and suggested Dzokhar may have been involved. Much of the media has presented it as fact ever since.” (James Henry, Boston Bombing: Feds Admit No Evidence Tsarnaev Brothers Involved in the Slayings, WhoWhatWhy, December 9, 2014)
In
addition to inconsistencies and lies in the narrative, mysterious
deaths surrounding this case involved the FBI. Two FBI agents who had
been involved in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s arrest “were killed
after falling from a helicopter into the water” and Ibragim
Todashev, a Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter believed to be a friend
of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, “was shot and killed in his apartment by the
FBI.”(JG Vibes, FBI
Agents Killed in Virginia Were Investigating the Boston Bombing,
intellihub.com and Global Research, May 25, 2013)
“A law enforcement source told The Pilot the incident happened about 12 nautical miles off the coast of Virginia Beach. The official blamed bad weather for the incident and said the agents – members of the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team, based in Quantico – fell into the water. The official said he believed the agents died as a result of the impact rather than drowning.”
Tamerlan
was also suspected to be a double agent for the FBI.
The
selection of articles below reveals several other inconsistencies
contained in the official version as well as many anomalies
surrounding this affair.
SELECTED
ARTICLES
With the official government narrative of the 9/11 attack filled with a plethora of lies that have since been subsequently exposed, the next biggest “war on terror” event on US soil that the feds failed to stop was the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombings.
The Boston Marathon bombing is much more important than has been acknowledged, principally because it is the defining domestic national security event since 9/11—and has played a major role in expanding the power of the security state.
The
Boston Bombing Web of Lies,
Julie Lévesque
According to the suspects’ mother, the FBI had been following them for years: The FBI originally feigned ignorance over the identity of the two Boston bombing suspects, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, as they appealed to an unwitting public to help them “identify” and “find” the suspects. […] Russia Today, in an article titled, “‘They were set up, FBI followed them for years’- Tsarnaevs’ mother to RT,” stated of the suspects’ mother.
The
Boston Marathon Bombing’s Inflated Injury Tallies,
Prof. James F. Tracy
In sum, the photos, videos, stories and figures comprising the mediated BMB do not add up and suggest elements of a manufactured event. The inflated injury count provided by the City of Boston is not readily supported by existing visual documentation of the two bombings, where at most several dozen individuals may have been seriously impacted.
The
Boston Bombings and the CIA Connection. Graham Fuller and Uncle
Ruslan Tsarnaev,
F. William Engdahl
Ruslan Tsarnaev, the outspoken uncle of the brothers was married to Samantha A. Fuller until 2004. Samantha’s father is Graham Fuller, the senior CIA person who was the architect the Afghan Islamic fundamentalist Mujahideen war against the Soviets. He is also involved in creating a global jihad network, presumably acting on behalf of CIA interests.
Two FBI agents died in a “fall” from a helicopter in Virginia this week. Days later it has emerged that these agents were involved in the arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.
Five
Key Questions That Were Not Asked During the Trial of “Boston
Bomber” Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,
21st Century Wire
Was older brother Tamerlan working as an informant for the FBI? Why were Craft International mercenaries active at the finish line, and did one of them place a backpack on the ground just before the bomb went off?
Boston
Bombings: Was Tamerlan Tsarnaev a Double Agent Recruited by the FBI?,
Prof Peter Dale Scott
There is a strong possibility that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older of the two brothers, was a double agent, perhaps recruited by the FBI.
If Tsarnaev was a double agent, he would be just one of thousands of young people coerced by the FBI, as the price for settling a minor legal problem, into a dangerous career as an informant.
See
also:
In
Defense of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: The Real Smoking Gun in Boston, Kurt
Haskell and Patrick
Henningsen
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