I think he should have to live so that he can reflect on his actions the rest of his life.  Of course, that assumes that he can develop some remorse.   I don't care if he was manipulated, it has become vogue to excuse people for what they do - oh look the conditions he grew up under - oh look he had some mental issues - we need to get back to a society in which people are made accountable for their actions.

The death penalty verus life in prison wo parole is of course always an interesting convo when it comes to which one is more of a severe punishment. I still side on life in prison without parole but what do I know. I've neither died (well, literally) or spent my life in prison (well literally).

I haven't really followed the case in detail so I don't know about the manipulation. I've heard about that assumption before in passing but I don't know what the actual investigation proved of this assumption. Interesting though from afar this assumption.

I'm sorry but the worst of the worst in my eyes will forever and ever be men and women in "suits" but that's just me. Not all of them but too many from my experience and view. All different kind of suits I might add. Most to all industries known to man. Many Americans would probably look at me like I'm crazy (of course I am btw), but I'm not crazy on THAT topic!!! With that said, anyone who kills innocent people or even attempts to for any so-called reasoning or purpose is pretty much one of the worst people alive right.! Whether they're the worst of the worst is irrelevant to me but understood where you were coming from.

Is the case controversial because of what to do about the punishment? Just wondering.

The choices are intriguing.....Kaczynski,(Unabomber), Eric Robert Rudolph (Olympic and Abortion Clinic Bomber), Ramsey Yuessef, (1993 World tTrade Center Bomber), and the rest of the dirtbags who inhabit that hell hole in Florence.  This Governor will neither pardon any of them or commute their sentences!
 

Even though of course when its mass casualties that could be tricky. Put that up for a vote amongst the victims families is what I say. Life in prison or the death penalty. I guess he got the death penalty? Well, cool by me but yeah imo he got off easy. Not only life in prison but a hard one. He is high profile so he will not be with the masses right in there but make him work and bleed until nature takes him away. He is young. That's way more equivalent to doing what he did to innocent people and innocent CHILDREN, than death imo. But hey, that hell place could indeed exist after all. Or if you're Catholic, the bad part of Purgatory, lol. Who knows about death is what I'm saying. Make him live through HELL without question is what I say

I give it a 0.0001% chance of actually happening. He is far more likely to be killed by a fellow inmate (as Jeffrey Dahmer was) or to die of old age. It is Massachusetts, not Texas.

I am conflicted on this decision. On one side,execute him and save tax payers who fund the imprisonment. On the other hand would evidence later under appeal find he didn't do it.  But if after all the appeals he will go through he is still found guilty --Off him.
If you believe in a God, leave it to him, she, or it to sort out where the convicted will spend in eternity.

I'd take life in a SuperMax over death any day and learn to enjoy my time,if my guards weren't mas

I might have quit  school in ninth grade but I love to read.  
 Give me a book worth reading, five  minutes later I'll forget where I am.  
IMO  A good book  is better than a great movie any day.  
   
  Super Max prisoners are allowed a continual supply of books.
 
  The biggest problem I see, when  I request War and Peace or Last of the Mohicans the masochist guard on my block would likely  give me Alice's  Adventures in Wonderland and tell me he'll bring another book next month.
 Even worse, he'd give me Jim Carrey's greatest hits in paperback.  

  In that case I would prefer to be executed DPRK style, anti aircraft fire the following day.

IMO Dzhokhar  Tsarnaev was likely influenced by his brother. That's no excuse in my book.
  If I had followed some thugs I knew when growing up, I would likely be in prison with them.  
   
  He's  one of the worst, along the lines of McVeigh, guilty without any doubt.
 Like McVeigh he needs to be snuffed out ASAP.  
   
If I was in charge I'd execute the attorney who files an appeal.

he does not deserve to live.  But I wish he was not made a martyr.  Maybe dump pig guts on his grave.  (Like that would ever happen.)  Honestly, I think it would be better for him to die forgotten in some lonely prison...  barely a footnote in history.

SuperMax and we pay for his room and board, meals and health care until he is dead from old age. Death penalty and millions are spent on appeals for the next 10+ years while we are feeding, clothing, and housing him.

  Alert the City of Boston he will be released from custody on a specific day, time and place in Boston.  
Que Sera, Sera.

  I'm neither for nor against Capital punishment. It has its place; but ONLY when the evidence is BEYOND irrefutable.