themeatbridge , 3 months ago

One of them said she had not commented about the case online, but she had retweeted a post calling Tsarnaev a “piece of garbage.” Another juror said none of his Facebook friends had commented on the trial, even though one had urged him to “play the part” so he could get on the jury and send Tsarnaev to “jail where he will be taken care of,” defense attorneys say. Tsarnaev’s lawyers raised those concerns during jury selection, but say the judge chose not to look into them further.

So the question is not “were these jurors biased?” because clearly they were. The question is whether the judge investigated the bias enough, which he obviously didn’t because he ignored the evidence and allowed the jurors on the jury.

I could not care less about the life of Tsarnaev. If he dies, he dies. But this is a prime example of why we should not be executing criminals. The legal system we have in place cannot be trusted to deliver justice. It is flawed, corrupt, and inherently unjust. The government should not use it to kill people.