Northeastern Prof: If We Execute Tsarnaev the Terrorists Win
This sounds like a logical and well thought out position.
Eric Owens of the Daily Caller.
Professor: If Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Is Executed For Murdering This Little Boy, THE TERRORISTS WIN
A professor at Northeastern University has declared that a federal court should not sentence guilty Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokar Tsarnaev to death because such a sentence would upset terrorists too much.
“If this guy gets the death penalty we’re gonna be hearing more than we ever wanted to hear about Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,” the emeritus professor, Edith Flynn, told CBS Boston.
“We have to remember that the purpose of terrorism is to draw attention and get the world focused on their issues, and to any degree that we have a sentence of death with all the appeals following, we are playing into the hands of the terrorists.”
Flynn also told CBS Boston that future terrorists could rally around Tsarnaev because of his dark good looks.
“I think Tsarnaev, given his youth and that Rolling Stone photograph — he’s quite a handsome lad — is going to draw quite a bit of sympathy, particularly from people who might be on the edge,” she predicted.
The longtime criminology professor who cites counterterrorism among her specialties compared Tsarnaev, 21, to Ted Kaczynski, the notorious Unabomber who for years lived in a hut in the Montana wilderness except when he was mailing or planting homemade bombs in a campaign against modern technology.
Kaczynski is currently serving eight life terms without the possibility of parole in a supermax prison in Colorado.
“Who thinks of Ted Kaczynski? I bet you half the population can’t remember his name,” Flynn wagered, according to CBS Boston.
Professor: If Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Is Executed For Murdering This Little Boy, THE TERRORISTS WIN (The Daily Caller)
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And yet, when Timothy McVeigh was executed, he disappeared completely from the news reports.
“I think Tsarnaev, given his youth and that Rolling Stone photograph — he’s quite a handsome lad — is going to draw quite a bit of sympathy, particularly from people who might be on the edge,” she predicted.
Yeah-like her.
Fry him. Under the federal system it will take 5 years or so. Then we can forget about him.
For the Left, terrorists win (and should) no matter what.
Execute him, the terrorists win. Don’t execute him, the Progressives win. Close call, but I would give the win to the terrorists on this one.
“I think Tsarnaev, given his youth and that Rolling Stone photograph — he’s quite a handsome lad — is going to draw quite a bit of sympathy”
She so fancies him. I wager this lefty female professor is into terrorists, and doesn’t realize that she’s just expressing her own attraction. And she’s assuming others will feel as she does.