death penalty

The parents of Martin Richard, the 8 year-old who was killed in the Boston Marathon bombings, has a letter in this morning's Boston Globe asking that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev doesn't get the death penalty.

After the release of the verdict for the Boston Marathon Bomber, actor Rob Lowe had some choice words about the option of the death penalty for him.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be put to death said the U.S. government's chief prosecutor.  According to Reuters, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement that he was authorizing trial prosecutors to seek the death penalty against Tsarnaev, who is charged with committing one of the largest attacks on U ...