article_snippet.sent: A federal jury's decision to convict Dzhokhar Tsarnaev of 30 charges related to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings was the most anticlimactic of anticlimaxes.
article_snippet.sent: More than anything, many people find something cathartic in seeing the seemingly insolent, unrepentant Tsarnaev being brought to justice.
article_snippet.sent: The only issue to be decided is whether Tsarnaev should be executed.
article_snippet.sent: Which is why the second phase of Tsarnaev is the one that really matters.
article_snippet.sent: Was Tsarnaev so thoroughly under the sway of Tsarnaev
article_snippet.sent: radicalized older brother, Tamerlan, that Tsarnaev should be spared lethal injection?
article_snippet.sent: Or had this seemingly typical teenager transformed Tsarnaev into a hardened jihadist who obsessed over al Qaeda propaganda such as the article "Make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom"?
article_snippet.sent: What kind of justice should Tsarnaev receive?
article_snippet.sent: There is no death penalty in Massachusetts, and in September 2013, according to a Globe poll, 57% of respondents supported life in prison for Tsarnaev; just 33% said Tsarnaev should be executed.
article_snippet.sent: By moving the case into federal court, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder made it likely that Tsarnaev would receive the death penalty.
article_snippet.sent: Keep in mind that no members of the jury were deemed eligible to serve unless no members of the jury stated beforehand that no members of the jury were willing to consider putting Tsarnaev to death.
article_snippet.sent: But imagine a different scenario in which Tsarnaev had been allowed to plead guilty in return for a life sentence.
article_snippet.sent: Tsarnaev would have been denied the public stage Tsarnaev has been granted; although Tsarnaev has not testified (so far), Tsarnaev terrorist actions have been replayed over and over again for people to see the world over.
article_snippet.sent: And Tsarnaev's lawyers will still be fighting for Tsarnaev's lawyers client's life.
article_snippet.sent: But Tsarnaev is a loser and a nobody.
article_snippet.sent: Tsarnaev should be allowed to fade away into the obscurity of a maximum-security prison cell.
highlights_snippet.sent: What justice should Tsarnaev get?
  
highlights_snippet.sent: What justice says a plea might have been better, to keep bomber out of the news and let What justice fade into obscurity in maximum security cell .
  