Explosions at the Boston Marathon

and this is news to you? this is merely social science confirming what everyone already knew already

is there not a value in confirming something like this through research?

btw i highly doubt that every NYT reader fully understood the implications of the effect of racial/ethnic bias on juries. convincing people of this is potentially one step toward ameliorating the problem, no?

i just don't get why you seem to be so cynical about this, aimless. it's an interesting article, has the potential to open a few folks' eyes.

honestly it seems like you posted a knee-jerk reaction to the headline (not the substance of the article) and are trying to maintain that position. it's an interesting article; it has value in confirming in a fairly objective matter what many of us--but by no means everyone--suspects is the case.

Krgyzstan is on the wrong side of the Caspian to include any of the Caucasus mountains.

They were born into the Chechen diaspora of Kyrgyzstan, fwiw. They are not ethnic Kyrgyz.

It's an interesting article.

their ethnic background and geographical origins are a little complicated as i recall, because they moved around a fair bit as kids--and the two brothers didn't necessarily grow up in precisely the same places-- and their parents are from different places/ethnicities. but that sort of thing is common in the former USSR.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/04/28/us/dzhokhar-tsarnaevs-lawyers-prepare-to-argue-against-death-penalty.html?referrer=

hmm, death penalty or life in solitary for a 21 year old? go america

he'd have > 18,500 hours of life out of solitary if he lives into his 70s tbf

I'm fine with either.

yup. no biggie, imo.

I live here, I don't want him dead, beyond that, fuck him for life

🎻

death sentence for D.T.

rah

http://www.zz7.it/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Rito-e-sacrificio-in-Grecia.jpg

The jury of seven women and five men, which last month convicted Mr. Tsarnaev, 21, of all 30 charges against him, 17 of which carry the death penalty, took more than 14 hours to reach its decision.

lame but not predictable

I mean BUT predictable

gah

Xps: did they wrap that dude all up in louis Vuitton and drain his blood into a Louis Vuitton bag?

surprised it took fourteen hours for the irate and voluble deems types of the jury to emotionally blackmail the wavering (probably women) into executing someone for crimes they committed as a teenager

anders breivik all nodding in approval eh folks

trenchancy will have occurred

yes but apart from deems this is a civil forum and u are within the clemency exemption clause for today

is putting a photogenic young person to death a good thing to do when they are also agitating about losing young impressionable people to ISIS? Or perhaps that fact is being taken into account? are we really having this conversation?

doubt the jury thought much about the death penalties possible impact on Daesh recruitment

I forgot this was a jury verdict. why do juries sometimes do the sentencing and sometimes not?

very lame and very predictable yes

I forgot this was a jury verdict. why do juries sometimes do the sentencing and sometimes not?

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juries decide sentences in death penalty cases. otherwise its the judge.

~lols~

in Federal court for felony charges, the defendant HAS to have a jury trial at guilt/innocence and at sentencing the unless the prosecution and the judge both agree to let him waive it. most defendants want juries at both phases anyway (i didn't hear anything about Tsarnaev's counsel requesting a waiver), which is kind of weird considering judges are statistically more likely to acquit and give lower sentences.

whos gonna play the handsome dzhokhar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriots%27_Day_(film)

watched the marathon in person today for the first time in 10 years, there was enough added security to make the vibe a little weirder but all in all happiness and joy prevailed on the one day a year god smiles on the city of boston.

Thinking of the Boston contingent today...