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Boston’s Bomber Found Guilty On All 30 Counts Surrounding The Boston Terrorist Attacks; Prosecutors Want Him Dead

Well here’s a no brainer!

The younger (and only living) Boston bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was found guilty on 30 charges of various crimes surrounding the Boston attacks and prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for the 21 year old convicted terrorist.

Apparently Tsarnaev is hoping for a life in prison sentence which is not likely based on the gruesomeness and downright viciousness of his crimes. It is almost appalling that he believes that he should have the right to still live.

Last week I posted the gut wrenching article in which the family of a 8 year old boy testified at the bomber’s trail about the tragic day their son was killed by one of the bombs set by the Tsarnaev brothers.

The death penalty phase of the trial begins April 21, 2015.

Via Reuters:

The Boston Marathon bombing trial enters a new phase on April 21 as federal prosecutors begin to mount their case for putting Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for killing three people and injuring 264 others in the 2013 attack.

The same jury that on Wednesday found Tsarnaev, 21, guilty of carrying out one of the most shocking attacks on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001, will hear from more prosecution and defence witnesses before determining whether to sentence him to death or life in prison without possibility of parole.

The prosecution is expected to portray the ethnic Chechen as an Islamic extremist adherent of al Qaeda who planted one of the two homemade pressure cooker bombs at the race’s finish line on April 15, 2013, because he “wanted to punish America for what it was doing to his people,” in the words of Assistant U.S. Attorney Aloke Chakravarty.

The defence, meanwhile, is expected to play up the role of his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan, in carrying out the attack. In closing arguments last week, defence attorney Judith Clarke contended that Tamerlan was the driving force behind the bombing, with Dzhokhar following along.

Tamerlan died during the brothers’ chaotic final day of freedom. Three days after the bombing, the pair shot dead a police officer and carjacked a Chinese businessman as they attempted to flee the city.

The carjacking victim escaped and alerted police to their plans, setting the stage for a gunfight between the Tsarnaevs and law enforcement that ended when Dzhokhar roared off in the stolen SUV, running over his brother.

During the guilt phase of the trial, U.S. District Judge George O’Toole had limited the amount of evidence the defence could present about the relationship between the brothers, who had immigrated to the United States from Russia a decade before the attack.

But the sentencing phase, which the Justice Department announced on Friday would begin on April 21, will provide the defence with an opportunity to focus on that element of the case and possibly to call Tsarnaev to testify.

The death penalty is controversial in Massachusetts, where it is illegal under state law but allowed in federal cases. The state has not seen an execution since 1947.

The bombing killed restaurant manager Krystle Campbell, 29; Chinese exchange student Lingzi Lu, 23; and 8-year-old Martin Richard. Tsarnaev also was found guilty of the fatal shooting of Massachusetts of Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier, 26.

More Racist Emails Shared By Ferguson Police Exposed

Below is another article originally ran by the Huffington Post that exposes more of the disgusting and hate-filled commentary shared among officers and other public officials within our grand ole’ justice system.

The ramped media coverage of police officers shooting to kill unarmed black men in various cities across America are extreme examples of police brutality taking place within the criminal judicial system.

I am certainly not saying police have an easy job.

Quite frankly I couldn’t do their job, however law enforcement officers are supposed to be sworn to protect the public from the “bad guys”.

With exposure of this kind of conduct by ‘our police’ I am not so sure who the real bad guys are anymore.The jury is still out on that one!

Thank you to Angelique Christina for forwarding this article.

Via Huffington Post:

The release of racist and offensive emails by city officials in Ferguson, Missouri, touched off a firestorm of criticism across the country this week, with swift moral outrage and demands for immediate change.

It is the type of progressive change that was missing this time last year, when it was revealed that a similar series of emails were allegedly sent and received by white detectives at a Louisiana sheriff’s office.

Similarly to Ferguson, the racially charged emails depicted black men as animals, likened President Barrack Obama to a monkey and referred to African Americans as the “entitlement crowd.”

There was also an offensive joke referencing the rape of white women by black men.

“Two black guys are at a bar talking. One says to the other, ‘You ever notice after you have sex with a white woman that your eyes burn, your nose burns and you get all teary-eyed?’ The second black guy says, ‘Yeah all the time.’ The other says, ‘Why is that?’ The second guy says, ‘I think it’s the pepper spray.'”

Unlike Ferguson, there was no national outrage.

The Louisiana emails were exposed in May 2014 by Belinda Parker-Brown, president and CEO of Louisiana United International, a Slidell-based civil rights organization. According to Brown, the 13 email messages she obtained — nearly twice as many as those uncovered in Ferguson — were received and forwarded by two high-ranking St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office employees.

Last Thursday, city officials in Ferguson released to The Washington Post seven racist emails that included jokes about Obama, African Americans and Muslims. The release of the messages came in the wake of a Justice Department investigation into the 2014 shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by an officer with the Ferguson Police Department.

One of the Ferguson emails even references Louisiana:

“An African-American woman in New Orleans was admitted into the hospital for a pregnancy termination. Two weeks later, she received a check for $5,000. She phoned the hospital to ask who it was from. The hospital said, ‘Crimestoppers.'”

While the Ferguson and Louisiana emails are equally shocking, Parker-Brown told The Huffington Post she is not surprised by the ones that surfaced in her own community.

The Louisiana parish where the email exchanges allegedly took place is the same parish that former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke calls home.

It is also where Sheriff Rodney “Jack” Strain once said, “If you’re gonna walk the streets of St. Tammany Parish with dreadlocks and chee wee hairstyles, then you can expect to be getting a visit from a sheriff’s deputy.”

[Read More] on Huffington Post

Ballistics Testing Proves Alabama Man On Death Row Is Innocent

bryanstevenson — Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, said they never questioned Anthony Hinton’s innocence. Photo: AL.com

A man who has spent nearly 30 years on death row in an Alabama prison for two murders in 1985 will walk free Friday thanks, in part, to new ballistics testing, local media reported.

For three decades, Anthony Ray Hinton maintained his innocence in the shooting deaths of John Davidson and Thomas Vason. Davidson was shot twice in the head on Feb. 25, 1985 after being forced into the cooler at the restaurant where he worked. On July 2, 1985, Vason was killed in a similar incident in which he was forced into the freezer of a different restaurant and shot twice in the head. Hinton was convicted of both murders and sentenced to death for Davidson’s case. Continue reading “Ballistics Testing Proves Alabama Man On Death Row Is Innocent”