04-20-2015, 09:56 PM
The people of Boston are really pretty cool and amazing in their strength and resolve; at least I think so based on the survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing.
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^ One survivor -- Rebekah Gregory, 27 (pictured left and center) -- ran the marathon today on a prosthetic leg. She declared, "This is the day I take back my life". The Marathon's wheelchair winner, 3 years in a row, gave her award to Martin Richard's dad (bottom right) in memory of his 8-year-old who died in the blast.
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^Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes each lost a leg in the blast. They competed in the wheelchair segment of the Marathon last year on the first anniversary of the bombing. Today they issued a statement to the Boston Globe, 'If there is anyone who deserves the ultimate punishment, it is the defendant. However, we must overcome the impulse for vengeance.'
They call their position 'intensely emotional and profoundly practical.' They join Martin Richard's and Sean Collier's families, the Boston Globe editorial board, and Senator Elizabeth Warren in pushing for Tsarnaev to recieve a penalty of life without parole rather than a death sentence.
The penalty phase of the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's trial starts tomorrow. I don't care if he lives or dies, so long as he never has an opportunity to live freely again.
^ One survivor -- Rebekah Gregory, 27 (pictured left and center) -- ran the marathon today on a prosthetic leg. She declared, "This is the day I take back my life". The Marathon's wheelchair winner, 3 years in a row, gave her award to Martin Richard's dad (bottom right) in memory of his 8-year-old who died in the blast.
^Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes each lost a leg in the blast. They competed in the wheelchair segment of the Marathon last year on the first anniversary of the bombing. Today they issued a statement to the Boston Globe, 'If there is anyone who deserves the ultimate punishment, it is the defendant. However, we must overcome the impulse for vengeance.'
They call their position 'intensely emotional and profoundly practical.' They join Martin Richard's and Sean Collier's families, the Boston Globe editorial board, and Senator Elizabeth Warren in pushing for Tsarnaev to recieve a penalty of life without parole rather than a death sentence.
The penalty phase of the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's trial starts tomorrow. I don't care if he lives or dies, so long as he never has an opportunity to live freely again.