{"id":182878,"date":"2015-05-15T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T00:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/05\/15\/boston-bombing-victims-brought-back-to-life\/"},"modified":"2015-05-15T19:43:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T00:43:00","slug":"boston-bombing-victims-brought-back-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/05\/15\/boston-bombing-victims-brought-back-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Bombing Victims Brought Back to Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, they have not been brought back to life.<\/p>\n<p>Neither have lost limbs, damaged hearing, or brain injuries been fixed.<\/p>\n<p>All that happened was that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/16\/us\/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-death-sentence.html\">Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Two years after bombs in two backpacks transformed the Boston Marathon from a sunny rite of spring to a smoky battlefield with bodies dismembered, a federal jury on Friday condemned Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for his role in the 2013 attack.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In a sweeping rejection of the defense case, the jury found that death was the appropriate punishment for six of 17 capital counts \u2014 all six related to Mr. Tsarnaev\u2019s planting of a pressure-cooker bomb on Boylston Street, which his lawyers never disputed. Mr. Tsarnaev, 21, stood stone-faced in court, his hands folded in front of him, as the verdict was read, his lawyers standing grimly at his side.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No one is made whole by this, and no one would be if there still weren&#8217;t years of appeals ahead.<\/p>\n<p>I do not support the death penalty.  It amounts to little more than a thrill killing conducted by the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, they have not been brought back to life. Neither have lost limbs, damaged hearing, or brain injuries been fixed. All that happened was that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death: Two years after bombs in two backpacks transformed the Boston Marathon from a sunny rite of spring to a smoky battlefield with bodies &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1138,969,972,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-penalty","category-evil","category-justice","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}