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Imprisonment. professor appreciate you sharing not only your legal expertise with us today, but also your personal story. appreciate you joining us. thank you. and now we re going to turn to another harvard law professor, carol steiker who is out there. what do you see as the most important takeaway or result from what we learned today, this jury finding on six different capital counts that they want to apply the death penalty to dzhokhar tsarnaev. i think many people are looking to this case to try to draw some kind of lessons for where the death penalty is going in america. but i honestly think that there s not much that you can say about this particular verdict, because it s really out of step with where the death penalty has been heading in recent years. we ve had massive declines in executions and even more massive declines in death sentencing rates around the country and legislatures around the country have been repealing the death penalty. six of them in the last eight