Justice was served. On Friday, a jury sentenced Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death.
After diligently and meticulously examining the evidence, all 12 jurors came to the same conclusion: The Muslim terrorist deserves the ultimate punishment.
Yet, for Massachusetts’ liberal elites the sentence is a mark of shame — even scandal. The state notoriously does not have the death penalty.
They cannot believe the jurors put the victims and justice above leftist propaganda. The Boston Globe is in an uproar.
In an editorial after the decision, the Globe thundered that “federal death sentences inevitably lead to endless legal appeals, which will afford Tsarnaev a platform for years to come.” According to the anti-capital punishment advocates at the Globe, “the prospect of seeing Tsarnaev’s face in the news for decades is only likely to continue traumatizing survivors and the families of victims.” For the radical left, the death sentence is apparently some kind of a victory for the Chechen-born Jihadist and an insulting blow to those still grieving.
The Globe, however, went even further. The death sentence will not only make Tsarnaev a martyr; it will expose Boston to international ridicule and scorn. Why? Many countries are opposed to capital punishment. And God forbid we should offend the sensitivities of the global community.
“Even worse, since most of the rest of the world considers the death penalty barbaric, the city faces the unspeakably galling possibility that Tsarnaev will become a human-rights martyr in the eyes of the international community,” the editorial said.
Even by the low standards of the Globe, the argument is not only intellectually pathetic and morally perverse. It is self-serving hypocrisy.
Abortion, homosexuality and same-sex marriage are considered “barbaric” in most of the rest of the world — especially, partial-birth abortion, which is blatant infanticide.
When it comes to baby-killing or gay rights, however, Massachusetts’ secular progressives don’t care about the feelings of the “international community.” They would never dream to change social policy in order to accommodate global norms; liberalism trumps religious faith, basic ethical beliefs or civilized decency. Much of the world (rightly) views Massachusetts as a moral cesspool, characterized by sexual permissiveness, the rampant abuse of children and cultural decay.
Only a Massachusetts radical progressive, such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Globe editorial writers or former Boston Herald columnist Margery Eagan, could coddle and plead for the life of a child-killing, mass-murdering terrorist.
In fact, what is most shocking has been the left’s attempt to humanize — and even glamorize — Tsarnaev. Rolling Stone magazine published an infamous cover picture, presenting him as a doe-eyed, shaggy-haired, goatee-sporting sex symbol — a Jihadist Bob Dylan.
In a July 18, 2013 column, Eagan practically fawned over Tsarnaev. She praised his supposed good looks and cool demeanor. Eagan compared him to — of all things — a typical American teenager, a “kid who might live right next door.”
This is not only puerile, but disgraceful. Think about this: Liberals believe that the life of a terrorist butcher is worth more than innocent unborn babies; worth more than the lives of his victims and their shattered families; and even worth more than 8-year-old Martin Richard.
The state’s leftist elites are up in arms about the supposed injustice being done to a Muslim fanatic, while remaining practically silent about the crimes of radical Islam — the genocide against Christians in the Middle East, the torture and execution of homosexuals, the brutal subjugation of women, and the widespread practice of slavery against non-Muslims.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his evil older brother, Tamerlan, did more than simply carry out a mass casualty attack. They deliberately placed two pressure-cooker bombs at the marathon’s finish line, knowing there were innocent men, women and children who would be slaughtered and maimed. They deliberately committed an act of war against America in order to establish an Islamic caliphate.
Had Tsarnaev been given life at a federal Supermax prison, he would be seen as a heroic Islamist freedom fighter, someone who had struck a blow at the American Great Satan and lived to tell about it. His profile and prestige — already great among many in the Muslim world — would only soar. He would become a Jihadist celebrity.
Liberals stress that sitting in an isolated small cell 23 hours a day, with only one hour of exercise, looking out a tiny window for the rest of his life is worse than a death sentence.
It isn’t.
Tsarnaev would be able to do things that Martin Richard, Lingzi Lu, Krystle Campbell and Sean Collier can never do: live, eat, breath, pray and experience the gift of being alive. Tsarnaev took that away from them. His life is not more precious than theirs — and it is morally perverse, even sick to argue otherwise. Justice demands that he be executed. As for the numerous appeals, the left is correct. The process will drag on, taking years if not decades for the death sentence to be meted out. Yet, this is because of a flawed justice system that is tilted too heavily in favor of criminals as opposed to victims.
The Elizabeth Warren left is wrong about Tsarnaev for one simple reason: He’s guilty. Unlike in other death penalty cases where guilt or innocence may be in doubt, there isn’t any in this one. The Boston bomber admitted he did it; his lawyers admitted he did it; the video footage and DNA evidence conclusively prove he did it.
He has perpetrated enough death and destruction. His terrorist assault left four people dead, over 260 wounded and 17 permanently crippled. He has never shown any remorse. In fact, he is proud of what he did: Bring Islamic terrorism onto American soil and strike fear in a major U.S. city.
For several days he and his brother brought Boston, the cradle of the American Revolution, to its knees.
Tsarnaev deserves death because America must deliver an unmistakable message to its mortal enemies: Cross us at your peril.
Islamic terrorists must be taught that our society will act in self-defense to preserve our right to exist. The jurors’ decision affirmed that the value of innocent lives should not be placed beneath those of a murderous monster. The fact that liberals refuse to recognize this is not just wrong. It’s shameful.
Jeffrey T. Kuhner is a columnist at WorldTribune.com and the host of “The Kuhner Report” weekdays 6-10 am EST on WRKO AM-680 in Boston.
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