The death penalty's hidden injustice

I believe capital punishment is a just sentence in many cases. But it can also be used as a cudgel to hurt the innocent

The death chamber at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility circa 2001.
(Image credit:  Mike Simons/Getty Images)

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's mother says the alleged Boston bomber is up and walking — and proclaiming his innocence.

In what I must say is a particularly nauseating statement given all that we know about her son's behavior on the day of the bombing and in the manhunt that followed, the young man's mother told the AP that she "could just feel that he was being driven crazy by the unfairness that happened to us, that they killed our innocent Tamerlan."

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Jeb Golinkin is an attorney from Houston, Texas. You can follow him on twitter @jgolinkin.