Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Did Not Get a Fair Trial, and Here’s Why

The verdict is in: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will die by lethal injection. At twenty-one, he will become the youngest person on death row, sentenced in a state without the death penalty. Even among those directly affected by the Boston Marathon Bombing, there isn't so much a sense of victory as one of unease. In a city… Continue reading Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Did Not Get a Fair Trial, and Here’s Why

Yesterday, I Saw the Boston Marathon Bomber

I stood mere feet from Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. I don’t mean the fateful day of the 2013 Boston Marathon; I had the good luck to be outside the city on that day. Or any time previously, although we apparently traveled in similar circles: he lived in Cambridge; I worked there and lived nearby for awhile. I… Continue reading Yesterday, I Saw the Boston Marathon Bomber