Karen Greenberg, director of Fordham Law School’s Center on National Security, wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post explaining why alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev probably won’t get the death penalty.
It could be extremely difficult for a jury to give the death penalty to Tsarnaev. But his case is unique: It involves the first lethal jihadist terrorism attack conducted on U.S. soil since 9/11. The thirst for vengeance may trump America’s more restrained — and humane — sense of justice.
Read Greenberg’s entire op-ed here.