Two bomb blasts during the Boston Marathon

[DinoDoc]

So they aren't even being detained for aiding and abetting a wanted felon. They are being detained because their visas have expired.

Three arrested for allegedly helping suspect after Boston bombings

Are you physically incapable of using internet search engines or looking at news sites?

 

[classical_hero]

The more info about the case, the worse it looks for the federal government.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Are you physically incapable of using internet search engines or looking at news sites?

Are you "incapable" of actually reading the article you posted?

If you want to make a claim, I suggest you find an article which actually supports it instead of the opposite.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Mudd

My relative. I grew up a few miles from his house!

 

[bhsup]

Criminality just runs in your family, doesn't it?!

 

[DinoDoc]

If you want to make a claim, I suggest you find an article which actually supports it instead of the opposite.

The claim in the post you quoted but failed to read (Is English a 2nd language?) was At least one Tsarnaev pal arrested today appears to have been here illegally. An illegal immigrant if you prefer. I simply found the fact hilarious given the debate in Congress atm.

 

[Silurian]

Criminality just runs in your family, doesn't it?!

He was driven to it by his wife.

 

[Borachio]

he [Harcourt Mudd] deserted his nagging wife, Stella, on Earth sometime in the mid-23rd century,

So, we're into precognitive crime prevention, now?

 

[Formaldehyde]

Pressure cookers don't kill people. Muslims with pressure cookers do.

Arrest of Saudi man with pressure cooker 'overzealous': lawyer

(Reuters) - The attorney for a Saudi Arabian man arrested at the Detroit airport over the weekend carrying a pressure cooker in his luggage said his client is the victim of a misunderstanding by overzealous U.S. customs agents.

Hussain Al Khawahir, 33, was detained after arriving in Detroit on a flight from Amsterdam.

Pressure cookers packed with explosive powder and shrapnel were set off at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, killing three people and injured 264.

"I'm afraid that some overzealous agents were looking for anything," said James Howarth, the attorney representing Al Khawahir. "They see a pressure cooker and say, 'This is a man who has to be detained.'"

Howarth said many people from Saudi Arabia travel with pressure cookers to cook lamb.

"Carrying a pressure cooker in America is not against the law," he said.

On May 11, Al Khawahir was questioned about two missing pages from his passport and the pressure cooker he had in his luggage, according to a complaint filed by federal prosecutors.

Al Khawahir initially said he brought the pressure cooker from Saudi Arabia for his nephew, a student at the University of Toledo in Ohio, because they are not sold in America. But he then said that his nephew had bought a pressure cooker but it was cheap and broke when he tried to use it, according to the complaint.

He is charged with offering false information to customs agents, part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Howarth spoke to reporters at a hearing on Tuesday to determine whether Al Khawahir would be released on bond. His lawyer said that he asked that the hearing not proceed because it was clear Al Khawahir would be kept behind bars by U.S. customs authorities whatever the outcome of the hearing.

A May 28 date was set to determine whether U.S. prosecutors have enough evidence to bring the matter to a federal court.

The two pages missing from Al Khawahir's passport were near the back of the booklet and likely were not important, Howarth said.

He said that if Al Khawahir had not been carrying a pressure cooker, his competing statements about it would not be cause for alarm.

"If he had made a mistake about an electric skillet, he would be in Toledo today," Howarth told reporters. Toledo is about 60 miles south of Detroit.

Al Khawahir faces up to five years in federal prison if he is found guilty of giving false information to the U.S. agents.

 

[Aleksey_aka_al]

I doubt two Chechens who haven't lived in Chechnya for most of their lives will bomb the USA in support of independence.

There are many Chechen freedom fighters living in the West, Akhmed Zakayev, for example, so those two guys could adopt the attitude being on American soil too.

 

[JollyRoger]

We have a long history of such violence on Amercian soil. Brits killing Brits and Americans killing Americans over some misguided sense of entitlement to independence.

 

[Cheetah]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32757790

Boston bombing trial: Death sentence for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

A US jury has sentenced Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death by lethal injection.
Three people were killed and 260 were injured when Tsarnaev, now 21, and his brother placed bombs at the finishing line of the Boston Marathon in 2013.

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Thoughts? I'm currently very much against the death penalty, so I'm somewhat disappointed at the outcome.

It's interesting that the jury took 14 hours over 3 days to decide though.

 

[Antilogic]

Against the death penalty here, a bit insulted the Feds decided to push for the death penalty instead of life in prison.

Ain't that what Guantanamo is supposed to be for? Oh wait, he got a trial.

 

[Bootstoots]

I don't get why it matters whether the sentence is death or life without parole. The Federal government hardly ever executes anyone: only 3 executions have been carried out since 1963, the most recent of which was in 2003. It mostly determines whether he goes to Terre Haute or ADX Florence. ADX Florence is a hellhole enough that I doubt it's any better than the death row in Terre Haute.

The death penalty is basically just an unreasonably expensive version of life imprisonment that occasionally ends with involuntary euthanasia instead of death by natural causes.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

At a guess, death row at Terra Haute is probably better.

 

[Cheetah]

Alright, to be fair, the conditions in your prisons is another thing I'm very much against.

 

[Leonel]

The death penalty seems like a pretty quick and easy way out.

 

[Cheetah]

Except lethal injections is more of a slow and painful form of quick and easy...

 

[Bootstoots]

Alright, to be fair, the conditions in your prisons is another thing I'm very much against.

Me too. My point is mostly that the death penalty is a snowflake on the tip of the enormous iceberg that is the American criminal 'justice' system, undeserving of the attention it gets. Under the circumstances I'd favor letting any lifer who requests it to be euthanized, as life imprisonment in the US is often an agonizing, terminal condition.

On a related note, I am glad that we're finally starting to address all the extrajudicial police killings, of which we have something like 1100/year compared to ~40 judicial executions/year.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Me too. My point is mostly that the death penalty is a snowflake on the tip of the enormous iceberg that is the American criminal 'justice' system, undeserving of the attention it gets. Under the circumstances I'd favor letting any lifer who requests it to be euthanized, as life imprisonment in the US is often an agonizing, terminal condition.

On a related note, I am glad that we're finally starting to address all the extrajudicial police killings, of which we have something like 1100/year compared to ~40 judicial executions/year.

Do you have a source for that number? I'm always looking for one and would greatly appreciate it.