capital punishment. tell us why you believe that. what i said was i thought whatever their reasons were at the beginning, it was clear before the trial began, clear during the trial, could not be clearer now that the defendant would plead guilty to life without parole and all benefits of trial and penalty hearing would have been had. in other words, you could have told a story about the crime during the course of his plea. there could have been a sentencing hearing that all victims would have testified and that would have made more sense. it s clear that tsarnaev is going to die in prison one way or the other. even if he gets the death penalty, it will take years to impose it. there hasn t been an execution in the united states in perhaps a decade. the overwhelming number of people who get death don t ever get executed. if he s going to die in prison