Still measuring the weight of Tsarnaev's punishment - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : Actually, capital punishment sends another message -- that it is appropriate for people to kill those who harm you, which happens far too often in this county.
42% : Opposing the death penalty does not suggest a lack of sympathy for victims and their loved ones.
41% : Jeff Jacoby's March 9 column ("Execute Tsarnaev," Opinion), which repeatedly asserts that Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be executed "now," following the Supreme Court's decision reinstating the death penalty in his case, nowhere acknowledges that Tsarnaev has additional legal remedies that he is entitled to pursue.
41% : In his column last week, Jeff Jacoby approvingly cites the decision of the Supreme Court to reinstate the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for his role in the Boston Marathon bombing.
40% : In response to the Supreme Court's 6-3 vote upholding Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence ("High court reinstates death penalty for Tsarnaev," Page A1, March 5), one victim noted that "it sends a message that you can't go planting bombs that mangle and mutilate people."
39% : Another fact is that, of all Western industrialized nations, only the United States continues the barbaric practice of the death penalty.
36% : It is long overdue for the federal government to join our allied nations and a growing number of states by abolishing capital punishment.
32% : I have no issue with Jacoby's stating his views on the death penalty, but it is irresponsible to omit this information and suggest that the Biden administration can immediately seek an execution.
21% : Rather than call for President Biden to carry out Tsarnaev's punishment, as Jacoby does, we should instead consider the words of Coretta Scott King: "I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty. . . .

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