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Trump Wants Boston Marathon Bomber to Get Death Penalty. Dems Want Him to Vote.

Aug 6, 2020 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer

My latest in PJ Media:

Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson, an Obama appointee to the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, on Friday overturned the death sentence of Boston Marathon jihad bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. President Trump is unhappy. Early Sunday morning he tweeted: “Death penalty! He killed and badly wounded many. Justice!”

Democrats, in contrast, appear to be fine with Thompson’s decision, as some Democratic leaders are on record saying not only that Tsarnaev should not be put to death, but that he should vote.

As far as Trump is concerned, this is still a live issue despite Thompson’s ruling. On Sunday afternoon he followed up his initial tweet with two more, saying: “Rarely has anybody deserved the death penalty more than the Boston Bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The court agreed that this ‘was one of the worst domestic terrorist attacks since the 9/11 atrocities’. Yet the appellate court tossed out the death sentence. So many lives lost and ruined. The Federal Government must again seek the Death Penalty in a do-over of that chapter of the original trial. Our Country cannot let the appellate decision stand. Also, it is ridiculous that this process is taking so long!”

Trump also took this question right to the Democrats, saying after the ruling was announced on Friday: “They protect criminals and Biden opposes the death penalty, even for cop killers and child murderers.” Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is a child murderer, as one of his victims in the Marathon bombings was an eight-year-old boy named Martin Richard.

But the Democrats nevertheless want Dzhokhar Tsarnaev alive, well, and voting a straight Democrat ticket. Back in April 2019, Bernie Sanders came out for restoring voting rights for convicted felons. He was asked if he believed that even “terrible people,” including convicted murderers such as Tsarnaev, should have the right to vote. Sanders was unequivocal: “Yes, even for terrible people, because once you start chipping away and you say, ‘Well, that guy committed a terrible crime, not going to let him vote. Well, that person did that. Not going to let that person vote,’ you’re running down a slippery slope.”

Vice Presidential contender Kamala Harris agreed, albeit somewhat more equivocally: “I think we should have that conversation,” she said, adding: “I have long been an advocate of making sure people formerly incarcerated are not denied the right to vote. In some states they’re permanently deprived of the right to vote.”

There is much more. Read the rest here.

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Filed Under: Featured, Leftist/Islamic Alliance, Robert Spencer, Useful idiots Tagged With: Bernie Sanders, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Linda Sarsour, O. Rogeriee Thompson


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  1. curious says

    Aug 6, 2020 at 5:05 pm

    In the spirit of bipartisanship, let him vote on the first day of early voting, then execute him the next day.

    • Ramez says

      Aug 6, 2020 at 5:09 pm

      😂😂 Hear, hear!

    • David Curtis says

      Aug 7, 2020 at 8:07 am

      Its a great plan.

    • Mary says

      Aug 7, 2020 at 10:19 am

      No do it the other way. Execute him then let him vote. Same as the people that died in the bombing, they can’t vote.

    • maria says

      Aug 7, 2020 at 11:46 am

      Execute him he has no right to vote,he is a murderer and not American citizen

  2. Huh!?! says

    Aug 6, 2020 at 5:45 pm

    Hmmm…so it was an obama appointee. Why am I not shocked. The democrats are in name only. The party has been taken over by islamists and communists with some fascists thrown in to complete the soup. At least Trump is going after another trial.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 6, 2020 at 6:30 pm

      I’m not surprised this was an Obama appointee, either.

    • curious says

      Aug 6, 2020 at 6:51 pm

      @Huh!?!, what is your theory to explain why Judge Torruella (appointed by Ronald Reagan) joined in the unanimous decision? Are the Republicans also taken over by Islamists and communists with some fascists thrown in?

      I would actually agree that Islamists have taken over much of both major parties, but most people seem to blame whatever they consider “the other” party for everything.

      You can read the unanimous First Circuit decision here:

      https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7011640/Tsarnaev-Ruling.txt

      You can read about how Islamists captured the nation’s capital here:

      https://www.vox.com/2016/3/21/11275354/saudi-arabia-gulf-washington

      The Petrodollars with which Islamists hijack NATO governments go back to Nixon’s formerly secret deals with KSA:

      https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-05-30/the-untold-story-behind-saudi-arabia-s-41-year-u-s-debt-secret

      Nixon shifted the USD from the gold standard to the Petrodollar standard in order to finance his war in southeast Asia. Islamists have been hijacking NATO policy ever since.

    • David Curtis says

      Aug 7, 2020 at 8:07 am

      Soup?
      More like sileage, slurry.

    • David Curtis says

      Aug 7, 2020 at 8:11 am

      Soup. NO, slurry, sileage deff.

  3. Tony Naim says

    Aug 6, 2020 at 6:05 pm

    I am not supportive of the death penalty but I also believe the right place for a savage is in cage.

  4. Rarely says

    Aug 6, 2020 at 6:17 pm

    I wonder if Trump bothered to read Judge Thompson’s actual judgement or is just exhibiting a knee-jerk reaction. There can be many reasons why even a pro-death penalty judge would reverse a death penalty. An appeal would clarify the matter but for the President to say “Our Country can not let (the appellate court’s decision) to stand” is terribly irresponsible. Isn’t that exactly why the U.S. has a division of powers and an independent judiciary?
    Turning this event into a political issue is dishonoring the victims.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 6, 2020 at 6:28 pm

      This Jihadist’s lawyer is just against the death penalty in all cases–not matter how horrifying the crime.

      • Rarely says

        Aug 6, 2020 at 7:01 pm

        Many people are. However his lawyer is neither the judge or jury. A lawyer who favours the death penalty will use every argument he can muster to keep his client from getting it — it’s his job.

        • OLD GUY says

          Aug 7, 2020 at 10:30 am

          And we the tax payer pay for his trial and defense and his appeals etc. Now we get to support him for his life. What did the families of the people he killed get? Broken hearts and pain.

  5. gravenimage says

    Aug 6, 2020 at 6:22 pm

    Trump Wants Boston Marathon Bomber to Get Death Penalty. Dems Want Him to Vote.
    ……………

    Complete insanity–*no one* in prison should be voting.

    Voting should be something that paroled felons can earn back, after enough years of being bact in society and keeping their noses clean.

    Tsarnaev should rightly face the death penalty–or at *least* life in prison without the possibility of parole.

    The idea that he and those like him should have the right to vote is utterly perverse.

    • Rarely says

      Aug 6, 2020 at 7:08 pm

      I agree that those incarcerated should lose their vote while in jail. I also feel that extending that penalty beyond jail is a very slippery slope — hard to determine (if not impossible) when to give the right to vote back and certainly open to abuse.

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 6, 2020 at 11:36 pm

        I already said that I think that most felons should be able to earn back their right to vote.

    • J Morgan says

      Aug 6, 2020 at 8:06 pm

      +1

  6. Ren says

    Aug 7, 2020 at 12:10 am

    Dems are the party of apology of criminals.

  7. Giacomo Latta says

    Aug 7, 2020 at 9:30 am

    While it is possible for someone with a political title to act beyond what is permitted in a constitution or beyond commonly-accepted scope of power, the deliberate infraction of a law is basically an anti-democratic act. Therefore, no law-breaker deserves the ability to use the franchise which is normally considered an inalienable right. Please note that those considered mental defectives lose their franchise or do not gain it upon reaching the age of majority. Lawbreakers belong to a category below that which these latter two do.

  8. Giacomo Latta says

    Aug 7, 2020 at 9:32 am

    I forgot to mention. A picture of Comrade Bernie and his junkyard dog! What a sight first thing in the morning.

  9. peter says

    Aug 8, 2020 at 2:21 pm

    Nothing makes me more angry than seeing the grin on the idiotic face of BS . God save the word from such idiots !

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