Don’t make Tsarnaev 4th Boston Marathon murder victim

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev did a real bad thing. The teenager helped his older brother set off a bomb at the 2013 Boston Marathon that killed 3 and wounded hundreds.

His brother was killed in the pursuit of both. Dzhokhar was captured and sentenced to death. The U.S. Court of Appeals overturned his death sentence on technical evidentiary grounds. Last Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated his death sentence, overturning the Appeals Court decision.

That may not be a Constitutional mistake but it was certainly a moral mistake. The death penalty does nothing to promote justice. It's simply state sponsored murder. It is bloodlust revenge, springing from the same moral decay that motivates individuals to commit murder in the first place. Except capital punishment is moral decay in the state. Nations and U.S. states that shed the moral decay of execution deserve our thanks and support.

Even tho Dzhokhar is back on death row, his execution is on indefinite hold due to a federal review of the death penalty ordered by Attorney General Merrick Garland last July. It’s possible that review will spare Dzhokhar.

In a bitter irony from the Supreme Court decision, all 6 prolife conservative justices voted pro death. Pro lifer Trump resumed federal executions during his term, authorizing 13 of the 50 federal executions since 1927.

Hopefully, Garland’s federal review will spare Dzhokhar and the other 41 persons on federal death row before, Republicans return to power to power up the federal death machine.