How long should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get behind bars?

[Caliga]

The death penalty would give his life meaning (based on my understanding of him.)  I voted for that, as I figured he may as well have a fulfilling life.

We don't need to do anything to fulfill his psychological needs.  We also don't need to turn him into a martyr.  Life without parole.

[Admiral Yi]

Based on the artist's sketches they showed on CNN there were some hotties in attendance at the arraignment.

[fhdz]

I think that, after conviction but before sentencing, he should commit suicide by leaping out of the paddy wagon returning him to jail at highway speeds.  Preferably while on a high bridge.

This is my favorite answer so far.

[DGuller]

I personally don't care one way or the other how emotionally fulfilled such scumbags feel when they're sentenced to die.  I just want them dead.

[derspiess]

I personally don't care one way or the other how emotionally fulfilled such scumbags feel when they're sentenced to die.  I just want them dead.

Yep.

[Darth Wagtaros]

I think that, after conviction but before sentencing, he should commit suicide by leaping out of the paddy wagon returning him to jail at highway speeds.  Preferably while on a high bridge.

What's in it for him?

He'd make the movie that much cooler?

[DGuller]

I personally don't care one way or the other how emotionally fulfilled such scumbags feel when they're sentenced to die.  I just want them dead.

Yep.

Now that I think about it, I want him to live until 120.

[Caliga]

I don't really care how much longer he lives, as long as a) he never leaves prison, and b) he is left with little to do but contemplate his evil actions in his cell of woe.

[Darth Wagtaros]

I don't really care how much longer he lives, as long as a) he never leaves prison, and b) he is left with little to do but contemplate his evil actions in his cell of woe.

He'll correspond with like minded wackjobs and become convinced of the righteousness of his actions. I'd rather risk creating a martyr than that.

[mongers]

If found guilty, whatever the sentencing judge thinks is correct.

[OttoVonBismarck]

He's facing four murders, while he didn't pull the trigger on the dead police officer that doesn't matter when you're an accomplice and he's also legally responsible for all of the murders at the bombing even the ones not from the bomb he laid down because he was part of the criminal conspiracy. There is not really anyway I can see to anything less than life without the possibility of parole. I feel like there are a lot of people who are going to get life with no possibility of parole (or equivalent years sentence) who have never murdered anyone, and many who get such a sentence having only murdered one person. I don't see how equitably this guy could get anything less than life without parole.

Terrorism or bombing causing death I believe qualify as a Federal crime which is the only way he can get death, if he's sentenced in a Federal court I'm fine if the legal outcome is death penalty and I'm fine if he's ultimately only prosecuted in Massachusetts and ends up with just the life w/o parole.

Keep in mind Ariel Castro in Cleveland hasn't murdered anyone and there is a 100% chance he gets a sentence equivalent to life (i.e. hundreds of years incarceration with the parole formula meaning he has to serve hundreds of years before he's eligible, which is essentially life.)

[Neil]

We also don't need to turn him into a martyr.

It is a foolish, foolish people whose strategy for dealing with these sorts of things is based on a million failed evil overlords.  Take a page out of the book a real evil overlord: 'No man, no problem.'

[Caliga]

'No man, no problem.'

[Siege]

My problem with Life w/o parole is that it could change 30 years from now.

Also, if western society collapse, he might become free and organize a militia in Montana called CUT - Church Universal and Triumphant and conquer Idaho and the Dakotas. His militiamen could will be the best heavy cavalry in the plains charging screaming "Cut, Cut, Cut!"

[dps]

Death.