Boston area residents were more in
favor of the death penalty for Tsarnaev than residents of the rest of the state, 56 percent to 50 percent, even though when asked their general opinion of capital punishment Bostonians were actually less in favor of executions for murderers than other Bay Staters, 41 percent to 62 percent.
On that day, Judge Keller let her personal bias in
favor of the death penalty trample the right of now - executed prisoner Michael Richard to access the courts and have due process.
These factors suggest Tsarnaev's jury might have been «rigged» in
favor of the death penalty.
«The jury was... «rigged» in
favor of the death penalty.
Obama says he is in
favor of the death penalty, but does anyone doubt that a Supreme Court in which Stephen Breyer is the ideologically median Justice will vote to strike down the death penalty?
When he began his research, at home in Headland, in the early 70s, Mr. Espy was in
favor of the death penalty.