The jury in the case of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev handed down a death sentence Friday afternoon in a Boston courtroom. Tsarnaev was convicted last month on all 30 counts for his role in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, which killed three people and injured hundreds.
An Indonesian court sentenced a grandmother from the UK to death after she was caught trying to smuggle $2.5 million in cocaine onto the resort island of Bali. I feel that bares repeating, they gave her the death penalty for drugs! She's giong to be put to death because she was trying to smuggle drugs!
According to a new poll from the Pew Research Center, a solid but decreasing majority of Americans support the death penalty. Of the 2001 adults polled, 63 percent were in favor of capital punishment, whereas 31 percent were opposed.