His death sentence has been overturned; his victims, however, have no chance to appeal. My latest in FrontPage:
This is more about the state of American society today than it is about Boston Marathon jihad murderer Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The Boston Globe reported Friday that “in a 182-page ruling that infuriated some victims [no kidding], the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled that George A. O’Toole Jr., the judge in Tsarnaev’s 2015 trial, ‘did not meet the standard’ of fairness while presiding over jury selection.” The appeals court accordingly overturned Tsarnaev’s death sentence. Aside from cheating Tsarnaev out of his 72 virgins, this appeal denies justice to his victims.
Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson wrote in her ruling that “a core promise of our criminal justice system is that even the very worst among us deserves to be fairly tried and lawfully punished.” That is undeniably true, as is Thompson’s observation that the bombings were “one of the worst domestic terrorist attacks since the 9/11 atrocities.”
But how unfair was the trial in fact, and how unfair could it have been? There is no question that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is guilty. His actions were captured on video and abundantly documented. What’s more, he remained defiantly unrepentant for a considerable period after the attack. As prosecutors argued in April 2015 that he deserved the death penalty, they released a video of Tsarnaev three months after his attack, looking into the security camera in his cell, primping his hair in the reflection, and then flashing the V sign and then giving his middle finger to his jailers.
And why not? He believed he had done a righteous deed. The motivations of Dzhokhar and his brother and fellow jihad murderer Tamerlan Tsarnaev became clear very quickly after Dzhokhar was apprehended. CNN reported a week after the bombings that “Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, wounded and held in a Boston hospital, has said his brother—who was killed early Friday—wanted to defend Islam from attack.”
And just before he was captured, when he was hiding out inside a pleasure boat, Dzhokhar wrote a long self-justification on the inside of the boat, including the line: “When you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims.”
It came to light soon after the bombings that on a Russian-language social media page Dzhokhar had featured a drawing of a bomb under the heading “send a gift,” and just above links to sites about Islam. Tamerlan’s YouTube page contained two videos by Sheikh Feiz Mohammed. According to a report published in The Australian in January 2007, in a video that came to the attention of authorities at the time, Feiz Mohammed “urges Muslims to kill the enemies of Islam and praises martyrs with a violent interpretation of jihad.”
Tamerlan also said, “I’m very religious.” His friend Donald Larking affirmed this. “Tamerlan Tsarnaev was my friend and we talked about everything from politics to religion,” according to Larking. “He was very, very religious. He believed that the Qur’an was the one true word and he loved it.” Tamerlan did not drink alcohol because Allah forbade it—“God said no alcohol”—and his Italian girlfriend had converted to Islam, as his American wife did later.
The Boston Marathon bombs were similar to IEDs that jihadis used in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Faisal Shahzad, who tried to set off a jihad car bomb in Times Square in the summer of 2010, also used a similar bomb. The instructions for making such a bomb had even been published in al-Qaeda’s Inspire magazine.
Not only were the motivations of the Tsarnaev brothers abundantly clear; it is likely that they were actually tied in somehow to the international jihad network—as was indicated by how they fought off Boston police early on the Friday after the Marathon bombings with military-grade explosives. The question of where they got those explosives has never been answered. Nor has it ever been explained where the brothers got the military training that they reportedly displayed during the fight against police before Tamerlan was killed and Dzhokhar was captured.
“I ask Allah to have mercy on me, my brother, and my family,” Tsarnaev said in 2015. But what about mercy for those he murdered and maimed? His victims have no chance to appeal the death penalty that he gave to them. But American society does not have the will anymore to take a strong stand against criminals of this kind, and that means there will be more of them.
CogitoErgoSum says
At least cut off the middle finger on both his hands.
revereridesagain says
Actually sounds pretty close to Sharia compliant. “D-joker” as we call him here in Boston should be pleased.
Jerry says
Make it all three
John Allan says
Oh, come on, be fair! How can you expect him to pick his nose and his arse – in no particular order – without at least one of his middle fingers?
somehistory says
Imo, this photo should not be made public, should not be publicized….again and again. It gives him what he wants….offense to others who know what a despicable creature he is.
Serial killers find their high in reading about themselves having murdered and relive the killings each time in their filthy mind. The multiple murderer relives his offensive gesture, if he is aware that it is being shown, and it gives him the glee and filthy gratification he felt when he did it.
Perhaps I am alone in my opinion about this photo, that it should be destroyed instead. Even if, he and his fingers are soon to be destroyed and totally forgotten because our Creator is a Righteous God and will enact Justice…real Justice…upon this creepy evil son of satan.
CogitoErgoSum says
I understand your point, but it is a true representation of what the man truly is and the truth should not be hidden away.
somehistory says
It’s well and good to tell everyone about the evils this terrorist/murderer did. Not showing his foul gesture is not the same as hiding the truth of who he is and what he did.
Telling the truth about his evil actions, telling the truth about islam, can be done without showing his foul gesture…a gesture of which he is as proud as he is of the murders he committed.
Just as the deaths caused by serial killers have to be told, the deaths from him and his islam ilk, have to be recounted. I’m just saying the photo does not have to be publicized every time the account is told.
gravenimage says
Somehistory–with all respect–I think that we need to expose the savagery of Jihad, not cover it up, and pretend it isn’t happening.
somehistory says
g,,
you are arguing against something that I did not write.
gravenimage says
Somehistory, you said that this photo should be destroyed. That would–even though it is obviously not your intent–wind up covering up this JIhadist’s continued hostility towards us.
owensgate says
So… We’ve lost the stomach for meeting out REAL Justice, but for “Social Justice”, we go all out bats*it crazy. The Musulmans are laughing at us. This piece of excrement was 110% “Guilty”, and sentenced appropriately. No, I’m NOT a Lawyer, but the required action is clear. Terminate him now with extreme prejudice, before there’s a chance Biden will “pardon” him.
Keith O says
Bidon’s running mate will pardon him as soon as he/she/it becomes president.
And may give him an apology for denying him his rights.
John Allan says
I think you mean meting out! But point taken!
Kepha says
I think someone also meant Bidet insteac of Bidon….
owensgate says
You are right, John. Thanks for the correction. Words equal to the same words or equal words are NOT equal to each other, LOL!
Gourdhead says
Spot on.
Walter Sieruk says
If Tsarnaev was actually executed he would have had a a terribly harsh reality. For instead in finding himself in a paradise with virgins , to his shock and horror, he would discover himself trapped and suffering in the fire’s of hell
As in Luke 16:19-31
For Tasrneav is a murderer ,the Bible informs its reader that a murderer “shall not inherit the kingdom of heaven.” Galatians 21:5 [K.L.V.]
Tsarnaev is a fool for believing in the Islamic doctrine/fable for believing in a paradise with virgins.
The Bible warns against giving “heed to fables.” First Timothy 1:4.
John Allan says
Yeah, well Islam isn’t Christianity!
revereridesagain says
I don’t give heed to fables, but that just usually gets me in trouble with “believers” of all kinds. What is most important is that “D-joker’s” victims would no longer have to remember every day that he is taking up space in this world.
Phil says
You say you give no heeds to fables. Do you then believe that there was absolutely nothing, and that somehow – in someway – that nothing exploded into something. Then that something (gas) condensed into a star (against all natural laws), then exploded – basically creating rocks, and that in the end, you came from a rock?
Do you believe that somehow, not only the complex strand of DNA arose from chance, but also the language (information) needed for DNA to work? Then do you believe that the complexity of a cell, of an organ, of an eye.. all of that came from some random chance of “stuff” being mixed in a murky pool, hit with a bolt of lightning and…
Come on Revereridesagain, let’s be honest here. You DO believe in fables.
gravenimage says
Many Jews and Christians also believe in science and evolution.
owensgate says
The evil bottom line of this is WE, the Taxpayers, are feeding him, giving him a warm, safe place to sleep, and, God forbid, if he decided he wanted to become a muslima, we, again, the maligned, overwrought Taxpayers would pay for it.
James Lincoln says
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev received his death sentence on June 24, 2015.
He *was* on death row in ADX Florence, Colorado, and execution *should have* taken place quickly.
Recommend a maximum five-year limit regarding appeals for prisoners on death row.
If that were true, Tsarnaev would have been executed by now…
gravenimage says
That sounds reasonable, James.
Rob says
Isn’t it just the penalty phase of the trial that must be re-done? Could still result in execution.
Wellington says
Correct. And in the meantime I hope he becomes several fellow in-mate monsters’ “girlfriend.”
After all, the worst of the worst (like Tsarnaev) are so deserving of a definite hell on earth before a perhaps final Hell.
And I seek, nor welcome, any comment to the effect that, blah, blah, blah, he needs to be treated humanely. Yeah, cry me a river.
Kepha says
Re all of this, there’s something that really bothers me.
Yes, the Feds were right to seek the death penalty in Joker’s case; since his crime fell under Federal rather than state jurisdiction. I’ll also join those disgusted by the courts letting off this evil character; and forcing the law-abiding people of this land to support him for the rest of his natural life.
But why is it that it takes a multiple killing done in an especially dramatic fashion for us to roll out the death penalty? Suppose a holdup man, hoping for a large take, kills a store clerk because the bulk of the day’s receipt had already been taken to the bank. Isn’t that also a horrible deed? What of the gangbangers who blow away a young child while aiming for their rivals? Aren’t they also as reprehensible?
I’m old enough to recall adults talking about the ancient black-and-white _I want to live_, in which Susan Hayward played a woman named Barbara Graham who was sentenced to death for murder. It was one that helped turn popular opinion against the death penalty. It also took very large liberties with the facts of the case. The result was that we ended up supporting a truly evil man like Charles Manson for half a century.
Rarely says
The difficulty is always where to draw the line.
gravenimage says
Federal Court Cheats Boston Marathon Jihadi Out of His 72 Virgins
His death sentence has been overturned; his victims, however, have no chance to appeal.
……………………
Just despicable.
abad says
All you need to know about Zohak is this:
He shares the same name as that of the demon in the Shah Nameh.
You’re very welcome.
Norse Wolf says
I wonder what the cost of this appeal and re-trial is? 2 million? 4 million? I get the ‘fair trial’ bit, but I wonder if that judge live in the same world the rest of us are forced to inhabit? As somebody said; it is no doubt he is guilty.
If death penalty are to be a deterrent one should perhaps look at the way the English did it when they still thought punishing one guilty to save untold innocents was better than sacrificing untold innocents to save one guilty.
Michael Copeland says
It is time to call out the “interpretation” red herring:
“According to a report published in The Australian in January 2007 …. Feiz Mohammed “praises martyrs with a violent interpretation of jihad.”
The Manual of Islamic Law, “Reliance of the Traveller”, says “Jihad means to war against non-Muslims” (o9.0). War is violent. There is not a non-violent “interpretation” of war available.
Memo to journalists:
“They are doing exactly what this book says.” – Lt-Col Allen West
https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/03/its-their-interpretation-of-islam/
Pal says
Off-topic
Pope Benedikt XVI seriously ill
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pnp.de%2Flokales%2Flandkreis-altoetting%2Faltoetting%2FBenedikt-XVI.-schwer-erkrankt-Letzte-Ruhestaette-bestimmt-3748245.html
gravenimage says
Very sorry to hear this–wish he was still the Pope.
Aleks1988 says
Just absolutely atrocious and despicable!
Also, to exacerbate matters, the disgusting heathens on the LEFT, have probably applauded this insane decision.
Also, Kamala Harris(that vile leftist bitch), wants him, along with other convicted felons, even those absolutely worthy of capital punishment, tonbe able to vote.
It is things like these that just make me lose faith in humanity even more!
John Allan says
Lucky virgins! Though I have my doubts that he would have the first idea what to do with one! Or, for that matter, the first idea what he was looking for!
James Lincoln says
There is an grand assumption by some muslims that having access to 72 virgins in the afterlife is “highly desirable”. A reward that they would actually “die for”.
I don’t think that this ridiculous concept has been adequately “thought through” by those muslims.
I seriously question the assumption – I mean think of the number 72 *realistically* – eight fully fielded baseball teams.
I would rather have just one wonderful woman that I love – in the here and now…
Rarely says
Don’t tell anyone but the 72 virgins are sheep.
gravenimage says
I think “72” just means “a lot” to illiterate Muslims.
OLD GUY says
You know what’s sad about this is that we the people tax payer paid for all of this. We paid for the lawyers who both prosecuted him and defended him, the judges, his appeals, and now we will pay for his food, shelter and medical for the rest of his life. Not only did he give us the finger so did the judge that over ruled the Jurys verdict, based on her opinion.
Sounds like a minor decision wasn’t as fair as it should have been, lets face it life isn’t fair just ask the families of the people Tsarnaev MURDERED. This was premeditated mass murder not a heat of the moment crime.
Shirley Ann says
Does anyone remember how the BRAVE AMERICAN, who spotted the Murderer in his Neighbor’s Boat in the BackYard, WAS TREATED BY BOSTONIANS? The Brave American was Persecuted for calling the Police on this murderous Muslim SOY BOY. This “AIN’T AMERICA, ANYMORE.
gravenimage says
Yes–terrible.
dannyboy998 says
More evidence America is not up to speed on Mohamed, once again Mohamed is getting away with imposing Islamic law upon infidels, this Muslim is a soldier of Allah emulating what his prophet commands of him. Not all Muslims bomb Boston but history tells us the remaining 90 percent of the followers of Mohamed fund those with the sword (bomb) that make up ten percent of Mohamed’s tribe. (Islam).
Hans Erling Jensen says
USA is on its way to become like Sweden – ie “going down the fast drain”!
elee says
Solitary confinement, FOREVER. His sort should never be allowed to communicate with another human being.
grandpahalfdime says
Appeals judge O. Rogeriee Thompson was appointed in 2010 by Barack Obama.