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Dzhokhar tsarnaev. today in court there was new video of the bomb that was shown. here it is. so you see it there. it s unbelievable right? a number of witnesses took to the stand today. many of them they were without limbs and they were explaining the horror of what they witnessed during that day and their current struggles. what do you think this is going to mean this emotional testimony? how is that going to play? well look this case is not a whodunnit. this case is he did it. his own lawyer said that in the opening statement. so the prosecution has got the kind of jury that they want which skews older, skews white, and they re hoping for a death penalty verdict in a jurisdiction that frankly has not imposed the death penalty in quite a while. this is the kind of just absolutely heart-wrenching video efsds that makes it very ....
Great to see you. i m starting with the lawyers. paul, do you ask the jurors if they ve seen any depictions of jodi arias in any other way besides seeing her in the courtroom? i would be surprised if it didn t happen because there was a movie. not every death penalty case has a movie made about the defendant. so in this case, i would be surprised if that wasn t asked. if it was asked and the person lied, then that might be grounds to see that that juror is removed. but very difficult to get a juror removed. apparently dan on tuesday the other jurors did ask the judge to have this one juror removed because they apparently claimed that after she watched dirty little secrets she was biased. right. not only biased but you have to be at least open to the death penalty to sit on a death penalty jury. they were saying she wasn t even open to the possibility of a death penalty verdict. the problem be is, it s a bad precedent if you kick someone off the jury. for a death penalty, it has ....
Eight-year-old child, martin richard. this is the trial of a suspected terrorist. the security is very tight. i want to take you here to we are on the water in boston and here you can see a u.s. coast guard boat. part of the security force that s out here in force today. the u.s. coast guard and boston police boats patrolling the water also. move back here to the federal courthouse, again as we say, this is a trial involving a suspected terrorist. there are 30 federal counts against tsarnaev 17 of which carry the death penalty. the jurors have been asked if they find the defendant as guilty, could they render a death penalty verdict. all of them were seated because they said they have the possibility to do that. jose, i should tell you, there has not been an execution in massachusetts since 1947. they outlawed the death penalty in this state in the 1980s. but this isn t a state case it is a federal case. we will continue to watch developments from the courthouse, keep you posted as ....
So it s never a factor in the ultimate death penalty verdict. right around this time, toward the late 90s, colorado executed its first prisoner in about three decades. colorado department of corrections inmate gary davis was pronounced dead at 8:33 this evening. gary lee davis execution sent nathan into a tailspin. the guards were really taunting him that he was next, and that day he had a manic break. he really just started ranting and raving and had to be hospitalized shortly thereafter. nathan s ongoing psychiatric struggles brought about a major shift in his appeal strategy. now with a new team of lawyers, the legal arguments would be based squarely on nathan s mental health. they proceeded to file over a period of years his motion for post-conviction relief, alleging that the trial attorney was ineffective, and so, therefore, he didn t receive a fair trial. if granted post-conviction relief, nathan s sentence could be converted to life in prison. ....
Hellenic. all he wanted to say over and over was this larry gene bell didn t do it. it was the bad larry gene bell. larry gene bell stood trial for the murder of shari smith in january 1986. in my closing argument i told the jury, shari smith had the fortitude and courage to write out her last will and testament. and i put the pen that we took from the sheppard s house in front of the jury. now each one of you don t you have the courage to sign your name on a death penalty verdict. it was electrifying. the jury needed only 47 minutes to return the verdict of the guilty of kidnapping and f. larry gene bell was sentenced to death by electrocution. that was the only punishment for him and probably this is ....