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In reply to the discussion: Poll: After a fair trial - Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be... [View all]DreamGypsy
(2,252 posts)49. Who will write the song for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ...
...and which song will it be??
I didn't respond to the poll. I think it best not to make judgment about anything when knowledge is still in flux and passions are inflamed. However, I understand the motivations, good or bad, about raising this type of question.
When I ponder these types of questions I often color my musings with relevant songs. They may not offer answers, but songwriters have to distill the concepts, emotions, and reasoning into a more clear liquor before swallowing. That helps.
I offer these two examples on the topic at hand.
Canadian David Francey wrote this about Timothy McVeigh:
And for the other alternate, there is Phil Ochs' song about Paut Crump:
Crump served 39 years in prison for killing a security guard in the armed robbery of a Chicago meatpacking plant in 1953. His four accomplices received prison sentences, but Crump was sentenced to die in the electric chair and had 15 execution dates before Louis Nizer took on his case and the sentence was commuted to 199 years by Gov. Otto Kerner. He was paroled in 1993.
911 inspired many thoughtful, powerful songs.
Perhaps the Boston Marathon Bombings, or whatever it is named in the history books, will result in songs for the victims, for the law enforcement professionals, for the people of Boston and Massachusetts, and maybe even for the fate of at least on perpetrator of the crime.
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IF I were projecting an outcome I would have placed the options in the poll in a different order.
Tx4obama
Apr 2013
#3
Keep in mind .... Innocent until proven guilty is how a judge and jury MUST view a suspect
Trajan
Apr 2013
#24
'for all but the most heinous cases' I know many poeple who'd raise their hand to vote
markiv
Apr 2013
#21
Life without parole, and given to psychological researchers as a guinea pig.
backscatter712
Apr 2013
#7
I saw a documentary a few years back that said that no one ever 'studied' Jeffrey Dahmer
Tx4obama
Apr 2013
#27
Other: You know what's even better than justice for a murdered 8 year old?
napoleon_in_rags
Apr 2013
#11
I object. And since there's no judge here to rule on the objection that's that ;) n/t
Tx4obama
Apr 2013
#39
Assuming guilt, imprisonment until rehabilitation or death. Whichever occurs first.
Gravitycollapse
Apr 2013
#16
You can't use that single case as evidence against the possibilities of rehabilitation.
Gravitycollapse
Apr 2013
#43
Even without a trial, he shot at police officers last night, 5 minutes before his capture.
Travis_0004
Apr 2013
#47
I think sending a 19 year-old boy who until recently was described by practically everyone as a
Douglas Carpenter
Apr 2013
#45
Federal public defenders have agreed to represent the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings
Tx4obama
Apr 2013
#67
More than likely he will end up at the Florence Supermax with the other terrorists.
Tx4obama
Apr 2013
#68