Podcasts about Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his legal defense team continue to challenge the bomber's death sentence arguing two of the jurors were biased and should have been stricken from the panel. The First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston has instructed Judge George A. O'Toole Jr. to take another look at the alleged bias of those jurors. However, Tsarnaev's team wants Judge O'Toole to recuse himself (which the Judge refuses to do) over comments he made about the case on a podcast that the defense says raises, “concerns about his impartiality.” Do you think the bomber should receive the death penalty? Do you think the sentencing needed to be revisited?Listen to WBZ NewsRadio on the NEW iHeart Radio app and be sure to set WBZ NewsRadio as your #1 preset!

There were two flashes of white light at my feet, like quick fireworks, and then everything went black.  My brain knew that my right leg was beyond repair.  -Roseann Sdoia Materia April 15, 2013: That's the day the bombs went off at the Boston Marathon finish line.  This is the story of an innocent bystander who lost her right leg when the second bomb went off in front of the Forum Restaurant. Roseann Sdoia Materia's life would be saved that day by three people who stepped into the smoke and mayhem to save her life:  college student Shores Salter, Boston police officer Shana Cottone, and Boston firefighter Mike Matteria risked their lives to help her, and their story is told in Roseann's memoir:  Perfect Strangers:  Friendship, Strength and Recovery After Boston's Worst Day.  Originally released as part of this series in 2018, the interview brings the listener into the events of that day, when brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev unleashed a terror attack using homemade pressure cooker bombs planted near the Boston Marathon finish line, killing three people and injuring 264.  Days later, the brothers would also kill MIT police officer Sean Collier. Treated by trauma surgeon Daniel King, MD at Mass General, Roseann explains how fortunate she was to have a doctor who had experienced treating soldiers wounded by IEDs during his deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.  Beyond the details of what happened on that fateful day, Roseann's story is a profile in courage as she struggled to accept the loss of her leg and a new reality as an amputee.  Says Roseann, “Courage is getting up every day and facing the world. Some days you have it and some days, you don't. “  The founder of robostrong.com, she is an in-demand public speaker, an advocate for amputees everywhere, and a supporter of the many charities that have been born out of the bombings.  The friendships Roseann forged with those who rescued her remain strong. In fact, Roseann married firefighter Mike Materia!  For 23 minutes of strength, courage, community, and the resiliency of the human spirit, just hit that download button.  #bostonmarathonbombings #bostonmarathon #bostonstrong #massgeneralhospital#spauldingrehab 

Biden commutes sentences of 37 federal death row prisoners President Biden used his clemency authority Monday to commute the sentences of 37 of the 40 men on federal death row to life without parole, in one of the most significant moves taken against capital punishment in recent presidential history. Biden did not commute the sentences of three men who were involved in cases of terrorism or hate-fueled mass murder, including Robert Bowers, convicted for the 2018 mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue; Dylann Roof, convicted for the 2015 mass shooting at a Black church in Charleston, S.C.; and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,... View Article

First up on today's wide-ranging show, Ralph speaks to political scientist Adolph Reed about how American politics has started taking its cues from professional wrestling and how the left can rebuild itself. Then, we welcome Steve Silberstein from National Popular Vote to update us on their interstate compact's progress. Finally, we're joined by three interns from the American Museum of Tort Law—Dylan Bird, Gabriel Duffany, and Rachel Donovan discuss a rather unique summer assignment.Adolph Reed is Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and an organizer with the Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute's Medicare for All-South Carolina initiative, and co-host of Class Matters Podcast. His most recent books are The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives and (with Walter Benn Michaels) No Politics but Class Politics.One of the things that struck me, especially, is during the pandemic it was striking to see how much full-blown animus toward government— or toward the idea of public and public goods—that there is out there in society at large. And we know Heritage (and the rest of the reactionary, the Koch brothers) have been fueling that and stoking that kind of resentment for as long as they've been around, frankly, right…But what's different is that since the Clinton years, the Democrats have been just as likely to attack the idea of government or public goods and public services, right? And they're more likely to do it backhandedly…So there hasn't been any space for people to connect even the fact that they like to go to the public library or like to use the public park with this bipartisan, full-bore attack on the idea of government. And that has gone so far and so deeply within society.Adolph ReedSteve Silberstein founded and served as the first president of Innovative Interfaces Inc., a leading supplier of computer software for the automation of college and city libraries. Mr. Silberstein sold his interest in the company in 2001 and now devotes his time to philanthropic and civic matters, one of which is sitting on the Board of Directors of National Popular Vote.Of the states that have passed [the National Popular Vote compact], it's mostly been with Democratic votes. Because for a while there's been a theory that Republicans couldn't win the national popular vote. That's why they opposed it. But now that they have actually won the popular vote this time around, that theory which caused some of them to oppose it has gone by the wayside.Steve SilbersteinThere's no reason for [Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan being “swing states”]. You know, those states didn't even exist when the constitution was established. It's just purely an accident…Those states are not typical of the United States—each state is unique in some way. So, Wisconsin has a big dairy industry. Pennsylvania has coal mining or fracking or something like that. So the candidates just concentrate on those—what are really very obscure issues to most of the people in the country. These states are not typical. They are not representative in any way shape or form of the rest of the country.Steve SilbersteinDylan Bird is a sophomore at St Lawrence University, pursuing a double major in Global Studies and Spanish on a Pre Law Track. Gabriel Duffany is a sophomore at the University of Connecticut, pursuing a double major in Human Rights and Communication also on a Pre Law Track, and he is an intern at the American Museum of Tort Law. Rachel Donovan is the Outreach Coordinator at the American Museum of Tort Law, and she is pursuing studies in education. All three recently worked as summer interns at the American Museum of Tort Law in the VoxBox Civic Engagement Summer Course, and they participated in Ralph Nader's Dictionary Pilot.It's a very daunting task when somebody hands you a full dictionary—over a thousand pages or so—and asks you to read it front-to-back. Once you start to actually sink your teeth into it…I actually found it to be a very positive experience. Rather than simply looking up individual words and ending your journey there, the goal really becomes the exploration of knowledge.Dylan BirdFor me, what really did stand out wasn't the individual words. It was more so the process of defining that I found the most compelling. So it showed up to me in the linguistic sense that these aren't exact definitions here. They're more so measurements, gauges of people's public opinions and definitions that would shift over time. So it was interesting to see how the evolution of words came, how meanings evolved over time with new technologies, new cultural moments. And as a news writer, I found that fascinating—the complexities of a word, the connotations that go with it, they can make or break the framing of any certain topic.Gabriel DuffanyI think that this project could be very important for students of all ages because it's not often that you would use a physical dictionary very much anymore—versus just going online and looking up a word. And now multiple definitions could come up—you may not even find exactly what you're looking for, because words undergo new meanings on a near-daily basis. And I think having the chance to read the original definition may give students new meanings to words that they may have thought they had the knowledge of due to social media.Rachel DonovanNews 12/25/241. On December 19th, the Teamsters announced they would launch “the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history.” This strike covers nearly 10,000 Amazon workers who have joined the Teamsters, with workers taking to the picket line in New York City Atlanta, Southern California, San Francisco and Skokie, Illinois. Teamsters President Sean O'Brien is quoted saying “If your package is delayed during the holidays, you can blame Amazon's insatiable greed. We gave Amazon a clear deadline to come to the table and do right by our members. They ignored it…This strike is on them.” Scenes from this strike went viral over the holidays; one video posted by Labor Notes journalist Luis Feliz Leon shows NYPD officers guarding a path for Amazon trucks to depart after clearing away a blockade by striking workers – in case you were wondering whose side the cops are on.2. In more Amazon union news, INDY Week's Lena Geller reports that on December 23rd Amazon workers filed for a union election at the RDU1 warehouse in Garner, North Carolina. These workers are organizing under the auspices of Carolina Amazonians for Solidarity and Empowerment, aka CAUSE, which states that “despite an illegal campaign of intimidation by Amazon, which is desperate to keep unions out to continue paying poverty wages and failing to improve dismal work conditions,” the union believes they have “easily” exceeded the 30% card check threshold to demand an election. If successful, RDU1 would become the first unionized Amazon facility in the South.3. Independent investigative journalists Ken Klippenstein and Dan Boguslaw are out with a report on a potential conflict of interest in the Luigi Mangione prosecution. Apparently, “Magistrate Judge Katharine H. Parker, who is overseeing pre-trial hearings for…Mangione, is married to a former Pfizer executive.” Judge Parker's husband, Bret Parker, had served as Vice President and assistant general counsel at Wyeth, and held the same titles after that company was purchased by Pfizer. According to financial disclosures, Mr. Parker still collects a pension from Pfizer in the form of a “Senior Executive Retirement Plan.” The Parkers also own hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of stock in Pfizer itself, along with other pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and healthcare companies. These holdings raise grave questions about the impartiality of this judge.4. In more news from New York, Gothamist reports New York Governor Kathy Hochul has vetoed a bill which would have “reversed New York's longstanding ban on jury service for anyone convicted of felonies at any point in their lives. If enacted, the bill would have allowed people with felony convictions to serve only after completing their sentences, including parole.” This bill passed with the support of the New York Civil Liberties Union and Phil Desgranges, an attorney at The Legal Aid Society, called this bill “common-sense legislation.” State Senator Jabari Brisport wrote “Fun fact about [New York] politics. The Governor has until end of year to sign bills so she usually waits until [the] holiday season and vetoes a bunch right before Christmas, hoping no one notices.” The Gothamist piece notes that Hochul vetoed 132 bills over the weekend.5. Turning to Israel, a remarkable story in unfolding around the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. According to Democracy Now!, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to skip the anniversary “out of fears he might be arrested for committing war crimes in Gaza.” As we have documented on this program, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former defense minister Yoav Gallant in November, and since then various countries have grappled with their obligations under international law to arrest the pair. While certain ICC signatory nations like Germany and France have sought to weasel out of these commitments, according to this report, “Poland's deputy foreign minister recently confirmed Poland would comply with the ICC arrest warrants if Netanyahu visited.”6. On the domestic front, newly elected Congressional Progressive Caucus chair Greg Casar has sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin demanding that the Biden administration withhold new transfers of offensive weaponry to the Israeli military. In this letter, he and other progressive members of Congress make clear that the administration itself has “correctly identified steps the Israeli government must take in order for continued transfers…to be in accordance with U.S. law,” and that “the Israeli government has failed to take sufficient action or change course.” This letter is signed by 20 members of Congress including Casar himself along with Summer Lee, James McGovern, Mark Pocan, Pramila Jayapal, Sara Jacobs, AOC, Rashida Tlaib, and others.7. In a stunning story picked up by POLITICO, Republican Congresswoman Kay Granger – chair of the critical House Appropriations Committee until last April – has been missing in action for months. Despite continuing to hold her Texas seat, she has not cast a vote at all since July. Calls to her office went unanswered and unreturned. Visits to her office found it vacant. And when investigative reporters sought her out, they wound up finding her in an assisted living facility wracked with dementia. This story is tragic; Granger's son has spoken out since publication, addressing how rapidly his mother's mental decline has progressed. Yet, this is just the most striking example of the gerontocracy that has gripped Capitol Hill. And at least Granger had the sense remaining to recuse herself from votes; rebellious Republican Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky is quoted saying he's “more concerned about the congressmen who have dementia and are still voting.”8. Moving to some good news, the Federal Trade Commission announced last week that they, along with the Attorney General of Illinois, have reached a $25 million settlement with food delivery giant GrubHub, stemming from the firm's engagement in “an array of unlawful practices including deceiving diners about delivery costs and blocking their access to their accounts and funds, deceiving workers about how much money they would make delivering food, and unfairly and deceptively listing restaurants on its platform without their permission.” In addition to the monetary penalty, the company must make significant changes to its operations model, including “telling consumers the full cost of delivery, honestly advertising pay for drivers, and listing restaurants on its platform only with their consent.” This is a victory for consumers, workers, restaurants, but perhaps above all, the rule of law. As FTC Chair Lina Khan puts it “There is no ‘gig platform' exemption to the laws on the books.”9. On December 23rd, President Biden announced that he would commute the death sentences for 37 out of the 40 federal prisoners on death row, in a major victory for ending executions by the state. These sentences have been commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole. In a statement, Biden wrote “I've dedicated my career to reducing violent crime and ensuring a fair and effective justice system…Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss. But… I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level.” He ends this statement by alluding to the fact that as president he has imposed a moratorium on federal executions and fears that the incoming Trump administration will resume state-sponsored killings. Per AP, the three inmates whose sentences were not commuted are: Dylann Roof, the Mother Emanuel AME Church shooter, Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and Tree of Life Synagogue shooter Robert Bowers.10. Finally, on Christmas Eve, Bernie Sanders issued a statement laying out “How to Make America Healthy Again,” echoing the language used by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Under Bernie's plan, this initiative would include Medicare for All, lowering the cost of prescription drugs, paid family and medical leave, a 32-hour work week, raising the minimum wage, and reforms to the food industry itself, such as banning junk food ads and stronger warning labels on high-sugar products. As with Bernie's qualified embrace of the “Department of Government Efficiency” this should be seen as a savvy move to call the Trump team's bluff. Will they really go after big sugar? Or will they bend the knee to their corporate benefactors yet again?This has been Francesco DeSantis, with In Case You Haven't Heard. 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Lisa is joined by Meghan Zipin who talks about her experiences of being in the bombing at the Boston Marathon 10 years ago this year.  Meghan Zipin has a Masters in Physical Therapy from Northeastern University (2006). In 2013, she earned her MBA from Boston College. A survivor of the Boston Marathon bombing. Today, she writes about motherhood, trauma, healing and relationships. First Light, to be published in April 2023, is her first book. Meghan lives on eleven acres in New Hampshire with her husband, three curly-haired boys and their dog, Oona.  April 15th, 2013 is a day that will not only remain memorialized in the hearts and minds of Bostonians, but that of the entire country. We watched in horror as two bombs detonated near the finish line of the iconic Boston Marathon, claiming the lives of 3 innocent victims, and injuring hundreds more. The first successful domestic terror attack since 9/11 culminated with a massive search for the bomber, forcing a lockdown in Boston and neighboring communities. Next month marks the 10th anniversary of the Boston Marathon Bombing.  For marathon runner Meghan Zipin, a survivor of this tragic event, it was a day that shaped the rest of her life. As she approached the finish line, two of her closest friends were there, running alongside her for the final stretch, ready to share in her accomplishment. In a matter of seconds, what should have been a joyous celebration, instead turned into something entirely different. In Meghan's own words, "Those girls were blown up, suffering life threatening injuries. The weight of guilt is insurmountable."  But, from almost every tragedy, inspiration can be drawn.  In the courtroom, as part of her victim impact statement, Meghan told the bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, "I know one day I'll be a better mother and my husband a better father because we will show our children all that is good in this world; all there is to be thankful for." As part of her healing journey, Meghan has authored First Light (April 15, 2023), a collection of poetry that serves as a personal timeline from the time of the bombing to her healing and becoming a parent. This collection is a tribute to the commitment she made in the courtroom and a testament to the idea that we can keep going. 

Boston College Law school associate professor Jeffrey Cohen joins Radio Boston to discuss what the Boston Massacre, Sacco and Vanzetti and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trials can teach us about the prosecution of Donald Trump.

April 19th: Tamerlan Tsarnaev Dies  (2013) Today's story is one that many of us watched unfold in real time on the news. On April 19th 2013 one suspect in the famed Boston Marathon Bombing died while police pursued him and his brother. Two men who would forever be known in our history for the tragic attack at the prestigious event. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Marathon_bombing, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzhokhar_Tsarnaev, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamerlan_Tsarnaev, https://www.britannica.com/event/Boston-Marathon-bombing-of-2013, https://www.history.com/topics/21st-century/boston-marathon-bombings, https://www.npr.org/series/177378595/boston-marathon-explosions, https://www3.bostonglobe.com/metro/specials/boston-marathon-explosions/?arc404=true Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A federal appeals court in Boston has ordered that the case of the Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev be returned to a lower court. In a 2-1 vote, the three-judge panel concluded that claims of juror bias from Tsarnaev's legal team had not been adequately probed. Depending on the investigation of the lower court, a new penalty phase could overturn Tsarnaev's death sentence. Retired FBI Special Agent Kyle Vowinkel recounts how he was able to use his experience with the Crisis Negotiation Unit and the Hostage Rescue Team to secure Tsarnaev's peaceful surrender. Later, he reacts to the latest news surrounding Tsarnaev. Follow Emily on Instagram: @realemilycompagno If you have a story or topic we should feature on the FOX True Crime Podcast, send us an email at: truecrimepodcast@fox.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence is up in the air after a federal appeals court ordered the case be returned to lower court to probe claims of juror bias and determine whether Tsarnaev's death sentence should stand. Will this story ever end?

Dan discussed Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and wonders what the listeners' opinions are. 

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In this episode we discuss the Netflix documentary about the domestic terrorist bombing at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. The documentary details how the Boston police and the FBI tracked down the bombers, brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, over the course of a 4 day manhunt in the surrounding communities around Boston. The documentary tells the story of those 4 days through the people who were there from law enforcement to survivors. Follow us on Instagram and TikTok @psychlegalpop.

Lisa is joined by Meghan Zipin who talks about her experiences of being in the bombing at the Boston Marathon 10 years ago this year.  Meghan Zipin has a Masters in Physical Therapy from Northeastern University (2006). In 2013, she earned her MBA from Boston College. A survivor of the Boston Marathon bombing. Today, she writes about motherhood, trauma, healing and relationships. First Light, to be published in April 2023, is her first book. Meghan lives on eleven acres in New Hampshire with her husband, three curly-haired boys and their dog, Oona. April 15th, 2013 is a day that will not only remain memorialized in the hearts and minds of Bostonians, but that of the entire country. We watched in horror as two bombs detonated near the finish line of the iconic Boston Marathon, claiming the lives of 3 innocent victims, and injuring hundreds more. The first successful domestic terror attack since 9/11 culminated with a massive search for the bomber, forcing a lockdown in Boston and neighboring communities. Next month marks the 10th anniversary of the Boston Marathon Bombing.  For marathon runner Meghan Zipin, a survivor of this tragic event, it was a day that shaped the rest of her life. As she approached the finish line, two of her closest friends were there, running alongside her for the final stretch, ready to share in her accomplishment. In a matter of seconds, what should have been a joyous celebration, instead turned into something entirely different. In Meghan's own words, "Those girls were blown up, suffering life threatening injuries. The weight of guilt is insurmountable."  But, from almost every tragedy, inspiration can be drawn.  In the courtroom, as part of her victim impact statement, Meghan told the bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, "I know one day I'll be a better mother and my husband a better father because we will show our children all that is good in this world; all there is to be thankful for." As part of her healing journey, Meghan has authored First Light (April 15, 2023), a collection of poetry that serves as a personal timeline from the time of the bombing to her healing and becoming a parent. This collection is a tribute to the commitment she made in the courtroom and a testament to the idea that we can keep going. 

Holyoke Media, en asociación con WHMP radio, emiten diariamente la Síntesis informativa en español a través del 101.5 FM y en el 1240 / 1400 AM. Esta es la síntesis informativa del lunes 17 de abril de 2023: - La vicepresidenta Kamala Harris instó el sábado a los estadounidenses a tomar medidas durante “un momento crítico en la historia de nuestra nación” cuando miles de personas se manifestaron en todo el país contra los nuevos límites al derecho al aborto que se abrían paso en los tribunales. Las manifestaciones nacionales del sábado fueron provocadas por las acciones de la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos el día anterior, cuando el tribunal superior intervino para retrasar los cambios en las reglas que habrían limitado la forma en que se podría usar y dispensar el medicamento abortivo mifepristona. Los límites se detuvieron mientras el tribunal revisa el caso más a fondo. Harris hizo una parada sorpresa en Los Ángeles en una de las manifestaciones, donde calificó la última agitación sobre el derecho al aborto como una nueva incursión de los conservadores en una miríada de "derechos fundamentales" que muchos estadounidenses pensaban que tenían. FUENTE: AP - Con un gaitero tocando "Las campanas de Dunblane" y algunos corredores observando, las familias de las personas que murieron en el bombardeo del maratón de Boston celebraron el décimo aniversario de la tragedia el sábado temprano al caminar juntos lentamente hacia los sitios conmemorativos cerca de la línea de meta y colocar coronas de flores. La alcaldesa de Boston, Michelle Wu, que se postulaba por primera vez para el Concejo Municipal cuando ocurrió el atentado, se unió a la procesión junto con la gobernadora Maura Healey. En cada sitio conmemorativo, marcado con tres pilares de piedra, se pararon con las familias en silencio. Miles, incluidos muchos corredores de maratón con sus rompevientos azules y amarillos y varios exjugadores de los Medias Rojas de Boston, asistieron a una segunda ceremonia el sábado por la tarde cerca de la línea de meta. La carrera número 127 del maratón de Boston se lleva a cabo este lunes. Tres personas murieron y más de 260 resultaron heridas cuando dos bombas de olla a presión estallaron en la línea de meta del maratón. Entre los muertos estaban Lu Lingzi, un estudiante graduado de la Universidad de Boston de 23 años de China; Krystle Campbell, gerente de un restaurante de 29 años de Medford, Massachusetts; y Martin Richard, de 8 años, que había ido a ver el maratón con su familia. Durante una tensa persecución de cuatro días que paralizó la ciudad, el oficial de policía del Instituto de Tecnología de Massachusetts, Sean Collier, fue asesinado a tiros en su automóvil. El oficial de policía de Boston, Dennis Simmonds, también murió un año después de ser herido en un enfrentamiento con los atacantes. La policía capturó a Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ensangrentado y herido en el suburbio de Watertown en Boston, donde se escondía en un bote estacionado en un patio trasero, horas después de la muerte de su hermano. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, de 26 años, había estado en un tiroteo con la policía y su hermano lo atropelló cuando huía. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev fue condenado a muerte y gran parte de la atención, en los últimos años, se ha centrado en su intento de evitar ser ejecutado. Un tribunal federal de apelaciones está considerando la última oferta de Tsarnaev para evitar la ejecución. Un panel de tres jueces de la Corte de Apelaciones del Primer Circuito de EE. UU. en Boston escuchó los argumentos en enero en el caso del joven de 29 años, pero aún no ha emitido un fallo. FUENTE: AP

Today on Boston Public Radio: We asked listeners if they've ever ran the Boston Marathon. And if they're in the group of people who keep telling themselves they'll just run it the next year, when is it time to admit the truth to yourself? An earlier-than-usual Live Music Friday with Zili Misik, an Afro-Latin band. The founder and front-woman of the band Kera Washington shared music from the African diaspora that is bound to get you in the groove. GBH's senior investigative reporter Phillip Martin is featured in the three-part Netflix documentary “American Manhunt: The Boston Bombing.” He discussed his reporting on the tragedy and subsequent trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The artist behind the Boylston Street memorial to victims of the bombing, Pablo Eduardo, reflected on the years-long effort to bring the project to fruition. He also touches on the role of public art in our experience dealing with tragedy and grief. Dave Fortier is a bombing survivor and president of the One World Boston Foundation, which helps connect survivors of terrorist attacks with community and resources. He shared what the foundation's all about, and how he's feeling just days before running his 11th Boston marathon. Sue O'Connell shifted things up and talked NPR's Twitter exit, an Instagram account dedicated to AI depictions of Republicans as drag queens, Bud Light's ad campaign clashing with far-right ghouls and Kid Rock, and Trump's chaotic interview with Tucker Carlson. Maura Healey joined for “Ask the Governor.” She reflected on her first 100 days in office, the FBI's arrest of Jack Teixeira, the House's $1.1 Billion tax package, Phillip Eng at the MBTA, and more.

In April of 2013, using his experience on both the Hostage Rescue Team and the Crisis Negotiation Unit, retired FBI Special Agent Kyle Vowinkel worked with the CNU in order to secure the peaceful surrender of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the two Boston Marathon bombers.    On this bonus edition of The FOX True Crime Podcast, Emily takes a look at Kyle's illustrious career in law enforcement. Kyle Vowinkel served for 24 years as an FBI Special Agent is a former U.S. Army officer, and is a West Point graduate. Kyle served on both the FBI's elite Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) and the Crisis Negotiation Unit (CNU). After his assignments on HRT and the CNU, he used his leadership experiences as a supervisor at multiple FBI offices and retired as Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) in the Miami Division. During his Bureau career, Kyle was deployed to over twenty countries, including China, Qatar, Kenya, South Korea, and Peru, and as a tactical operator on HRT on hundreds of high-risk missions domestically as well as overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan. While a member of CNU, he negotiated with kidnappers, pirates, and more. Kyle is a keynote inspirational speaker at events around the world for companies and institutions such as West Point, Cornell University, Google, hostage negotiation seminars, and FBI National Academy events. Later, in 2023, he plans to publish a book sharing stories from his career. Learn more about Kyle: https://www.apexriskconsulting.us/ Follow Emily on Instagram: @realemilycompagno Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While Dan still sprinkled in some calls on the murder in Cohasset, he moved onto another topic and took calls on it:The push continues by Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's attorneys for the court to throw out the death sentence. Right now, death row executions have been on hold ever since the Justice Department imposed a moratorium on federal executions to review its policies and procedures. Dan heard listeners' thoughts on the death penalty.

A jury convicted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev of perpetuating the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings and imposed the death sentence. Tsarnaev argued the trial court judge made two legal errors. The first during the jury selection process and the second when it excluded mitigating evidence in the penalty phase. The court of appeals agreed, and it reversed Tsarnaev's death sentence. The United States government then appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, who agreed to hear the case.Subscribe to the Legal Docket Podcast feed at: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/legal-docket/id1525212317Legal Docket is made possible in part by Samaritan Ministries, a Biblical and affordable solution to health care, connecting more than 280,000 Christians across the nation who help pay one another's medical bills. More at samaritanministries.org/worldpodcast.

A jury convicted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev of perpetuating the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings and imposed the death sentence. Tsarnaev argued the trial court judge made two legal errors. The first during the jury selection process and the second when it excluded mitigating evidence in the penalty phase. The court of appeals agreed, and it reversed Tsarnaev's death sentence. The United States government then appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, who agreed to hear the case.Subscribe to the Legal Docket Podcast feed at: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/legal-docket/id1525212317Legal Docket is made possible in part by Samaritan Ministries, a Biblical and affordable solution to health care, connecting more than 280,000 Christians across the nation who help pay one another's medical bills. More at samaritanministries.org/worldpodcast.

On March 4, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court decided United States v. Tsarnaev. In a 6-3 decision, the Court reversed the judgment of the U.S. Court of the Appeals for the First Circuit, holding that the court improperly vacated Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's capital sentences. The Court held that the judge's conduct of voir dire conformed to its precedents and reversed the First Circuit's holding that the judge had violated a rule established by that circuit under its supervisor power. The Court held that courts of appeals have no power to circumvent or supplement legal standards established in Supreme Court precedents.The Court also held that the judge was within his authority to exclude from the penalty trial hearsay evidence of Tsarnaev's brother's involvement in an unrelated murder. The Court rejected the argument that the Eighth Amendment requires admission of all mitigating evidence no matter how dubious or how weakly mitigating.Justice Thomas delivered the opinion of the court, in which Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett joined. Barrett filed a concurring opinion, in which Gorsuch joined. Justice Breyer filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Sotomayor and Kagan joined.Featuring:Kent Scheidegger, Legal Director, Criminal Justice Legal Foundation

MK ultra is a dangerous and treacherous program created by the CIA and delivered to the FBI. It is designed to control the minds of human beings both foreign and more importantly domestic.  Serge Brown hosts guest Amy Holem from  Aimee's Audios Subliminal Acoustic Fingerprinting at https://www.aimeesaudios.com who treats victims of MK ULTRA targeting.What is the Uvalde Texas school shooter Salvador Ramos controlled by the FBI with this technology? Was Steven Paddock the Las Vegas shooter manipulated by the FBI while they were in control of him with mind altering weapons? Were the Boston Marathon Bombing brothers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev just pawns of the FBI and controlled with MK ULTRA? This is a must listen to episode!*** Send your comments & questions to serge@thecrashcartrule.com ***Support the show

Tamerlan & Dzhokhar Tsarnaev moved to the United States as refugees to escape violence, but after making mistakes that ruined their own futures, they decided that the western world needed to be punished. For more stories of the worst people on earth, visit our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thisisMONSTERS You can check out our new merch at: https://this-is-monsters.creator-spring.com/ To support the show, donate a few bucks through Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/monsters You can find more information about ways to support us plus contact info at our website: https://www.thisismonsters.com/ takecareof.com Promo Code: thisismonsters50

On March 4, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court decided United States v. Tsarnaev. In a 6-3 decision, the Court reversed the judgment of the U.S. Court of the Appeals for the First Circuit, holding that the court improperly vacated Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s capital sentences. The Court held that the judge’s conduct of voir dire conformed to […]

On March 4, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court decided United States v. Tsarnaev. In a 6-3 decision, the Court reversed the judgment of the U.S. Court of the Appeals for the First Circuit, holding that the court improperly vacated Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's capital sentences. The Court held that the judge's conduct of voir dire conformed to its precedents and reversed the First Circuit's holding that the judge had violated a rule established by that circuit under its supervisor power. The Court held that courts of appeals have no power to circumvent or supplement legal standards established in Supreme Court precedents.The Court also held that the judge was within his authority to exclude from the penalty trial hearsay evidence of Tsarnaev's brother's involvement in an unrelated murder. The Court rejected the argument that the Eighth Amendment requires admission of all mitigating evidence no matter how dubious or how weakly mitigating.Justice Thomas delivered the opinion of the court, in which Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett joined. Barrett filed a concurring opinion, in which Gorsuch joined. Justice Breyer filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Sotomayor and Kagan joined.Please join our legal expert to discuss the case, the legal issues involved, and the implications going forward.Featuring:-- Kent Scheidegger, Legal Director, Criminal Justice Legal Foundation

At 2:49 pm on April 15, 2013, a pressure cooker bomb containing ball bearings and nails, exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Boylston Street. 14 seconds later, another bomb exploded 200 yards away. As the crowd began to panic and run, police officers and medical personnel jumped to action. As a result of the bombing, 3 died, including an 8 year old boy, and 264 people were injured. The suspects, later identified three days later, were Tamerlan Tsarnaev (26) and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (19). The brothers immigrated from Kyrgyzstan in 2002. Tamerlan was an amateur boxer, while Dzhokhar studied Marine Biology at UMass Dartmouth. The brothers, who were practicing muslims, had a disliking towards the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, more so Tamerlan (who influenced Dzhokhar). Tamerlan wanted revenge for what US forces were doing to the muslim community in both countries. On April 18, after their identities were posted everywhere, they shot and killed an MIT police officer while he was sitting in his cruiser. They then stole an Mercedes SUV and held the driver hostage. While they stopped for gas, the hostage escaped and called 911. After the Mercedes was ID'd, police attempted to stop the car, but a shootout ensued. Tamerlan was accidentally ran over by his brother while Dzhokhar was trying to flee. He died an hour later. The entire city of Boston and its surrounding areas were placed on lockdown as a manhunt began. The next day, Dzhokhar was found hiding in a parked boat in someone's backyard. He was arrested and charged with 30 counts. He was sentenced to death on June 24, 2015. 

In Part 2 of this 2-part series, Kristina and Melina discuss Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and their Islamic Radicalization. Tamerlan illegally traveled to Russia without any repercussions and was even sponsored by the FBI to receive full United States citizenship. But when Tamerlan was denied, he decided retaliation was the best course of action.  After the bombings, the brothers murdered a police officer, prompting a nearly 2-day manhunt. Will the brothers finally be held responsible for their actions, or will the FBI intervene once again?Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/questionablemorals)

National news sources have recently reported the reinstatement of the death penalty for surviving Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, but many of the headlines are over-sensationalized and potentially misleading in regards to the wider implications of the case.In a new online resource, Dallas defense attorney John Helms explains the process of an appeal and breaks down the facts on the Supreme Court's Boston Marathon bomber ruling. “Frankly, I found the Supreme Court's decision unremarkable,” says Mr. Helms, whose unique perspective as a former federal prosecutor gives him broad insight into both sides of each case he works on, “It did not decide any novel issues of law or rule on any important constitutional questions. The majority opinion struck me as very much like a run-of-the-mill opinion that the federal courts of appeal issue every day.” Dallas Federal Criminal Appeals Lawyer, John Helms In the web resource, the former federal prosecutor discusses the following topics: What are criminal appeals?What does a criminal appeals case involve? What evidence was presented in the Boston Marathon bomber's appeal?What does the Supreme Court's decision on the Boston Marathon bombing case mean? Read Mr. Helms' full resource explaining United States vs. Tsarnaev here. About John Helms Dallas Federal Criminal Appeals Lawyer Dallas Attorney John Helms as a former federal prosecutor for the Northern District of Texas never lost a trial or appeal. He is uniquely qualified to evaluate both sides of a criminal case and provide his clients with the most effective defense strategy. John has practiced as a criminal defense attorney for over thirty years and has worked on many criminal appeals.He has been the recipient of numerous awards as a result of the time, effort, and creativity he puts into every case. These awards include Thomas Reuters' Super Lawyer and D Magazine's Best Lawyers in Dallas. Mr. Helms has represented some of the country's largest corporations, including Microsoft, Bank of America, and Phillip Morris.If you or a loved one has been recently convicted of a federal or state crime and are facing many years of incarceration in a state jail or federal penitentiary then speak to an experienced Dallas appellate lawyer about your case and the possibility to appeal the conviction.Please fill out this form or call 214-666-8010Media Contact:R. William(214)-666-8010

THE CORIOLIS EFFECT HOAX, PIE 314 DAY" From The Desk of Tim Ozman 3/12/2022: Joker Get's The Death Penalty and Jussie Didn't Kill Himself On 3/11/22, we celebrated the second hoax-a-versery of the pandemic's official declaration date. The “two weeks to flatten the curve” turned into two years, with President Putin having finished the job, his “invasion” into Ukraine has seemingly put an end to all the “covid is now AIDs” talk. Putin cured Covid and how before that, Covid cured Radical Islamic Terror. Each succeeding global threat is templated off the previous ones. For example, Covid made everyone a potential terrorist in need of contact tracing, they just switched the Radical Islamic Terrorist Mind Virus for a flu variant. I also noted how the Q-tip up the nose was a replacement for water-boarding as far as detecting a carrier of either “virus.” The dynamic established here was that of “submission to the Inquisitor”. Interestingly, water-boarding involves a technique called the "water rag", which involves pouring water onto a rag covering the captive's nose and mouth. This technique was obviously only employed in the interest of public safety and to ensure we knew all the information inside the terrorists, we had to pour water over rags over their mouths and noses. My question: isn't wearing a mask in the shower just self-waterboarding? I think the psyop was a complete success the moment the newly designated terrorists started self-waterboarding every morning. On March 4th, the day the errant space junk hit the moon, the surviving Boston Bombing terrorist, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (affectionately known as “Joker”) just had his death penalty reinstated. This occurs on the same day the new Batman comes out. This Batman-Joker dialectic is used in many of the major psychological operation narratives. Even the bomb hole's left by the CGI planes on the WTC Towers looked like the Batman logo. Also, note that Joker came out in 2019 and featured an uprising of masked Jokers. “Joker” is code for chaos agent, patsy, terrorist, bowl-cut school shooter, super-spreader, etc., while “Batman” represents the police-state response, the imposition of law and order, the Order to the Chaos. Therefore, as 2020 was a summer of Chaos foreshadowed in Joker, 2022's summer ought to be a summer of Order( not to be confused with peace). The Joker represents the political Left, the Antifa, the BLM; Batman represents the Right, the Proud Boys, the White Nationalist Domestic Violent Extremists. Note too, that Former President Donald Trump had been affectionately dubbed The Batman by Qanoners. #JussieSmolletDidntKillHimself Jussie Smollet has been sentenced to less than six months in jail. I don't feel particularly vindicated in seeing a crisis actwhore getting caught because Jussie Smollets are the norm, not the exception. This was intended to create the illusion that the MSM itself doesn't stage dramatic news spectacles. Jussie Smollet is a red herring. And what's more, following the Feb 3, 2019 hoax, he proclaimed “I'm the gay Tupac” during a concert performance he gave before the alleged attack was exposed as a ruse. Tupac is known for being fake-killed and moved off the world-stage. In court, he dramatically shouted “I am not suicidal” at least eight times. Does this seem like his former statement could be some foreshadowing of impending untimely death? If Jussie has to go to a real jail, then so do all the other crisis actors and news agencies, but we know they won't because they are producing this fake hate crime. More than 66% of hate crimes are exposed as hoaxes perpetrated by their “victims” and this is no different other than it's being exposed from the inside. In real-world news, Grimes revealed the secret birth of her second baby with Elon Musk, born via a surrogate. By “surrogate” we can only assume they mean 3-D printer with possible technical ass --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/infinite-plane-radio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/infinite-plane-radio/support

This week on the Wildly Uninteresting Podcast Episode #141:- The Boston Bomber pissed off America so much that they reinstated the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev!- Should torture be used in the modern world, and would it be effective?- Should America and their allies just kill Putin and get it over with, or does the western world rely on them too much?- Let us ramble about Ukraine and Russia for a moment!!- What would America look like today if Ross Perot actually became president?- Is there a suicide note archive, if so how can we access them?- A Maryland woman pushed her kid on a swing for 43 hours. The child passed away and the mother just continued to push the swing!- When is it acceptable to butt-in on peoples personal affairs?- How to tell when someone is in danger or held against their will.- The media are savages especially when it comes to celebrities, lets talk about the Chicago Bulls and their new Netflix series.- How and When were things created in the world such as; Pianos, Wine, Coffee, etc... https://www.facebook.com/wildlyuninterestingpodcasthttps://www.instagram.com/wildlyuninterestingpodcast/https://twitter.com/WildlyPodcasthttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE_56LWVINgLRDKDgPDHJrw

The Israeli Path to PeaceThere may be hope. Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, and Israel's prime minister, Naftali Bennett, have been speaking on a regular basis since Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24. On March 8, Zelensky personally thanked Bennett for intervening in the conflict and trying to help bring Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table. And if Bennett is not quite Talleyrand, he does appear to have brought diplomatic skills of a very high order to the table.An article in the Jerusalem Post on March 8 describes Bennett as an intermediary who has been “passing messages” between Russia and Ukraine without explicitly identifying himself with one side or the other.The Jerusalem Post story presents Bennett as someone highly knowledgeable about the current state of the conflict and the chances for reconciliation as Russia grows more amenable to the demilitarization of certain parts of Ukraine rather than the entire country, and Ukraine backs down a bit from its insistence on immediate unconditional entry into NATO, a development that would only further stoke Russia's fear and alarm about the encroachment of hostile powers around its borders.An Artist's PlightA February 19 article by Ken Kurson in Fine Art Globe, “Cuban Curator Anamely Ramos Gonzalez Stranded in Miami,” details how staff at Miami International Airport, seemingly at the behest of the Cuban regime, barred Ms. Ramos from getting on an American Airlines flight bound for Cuba. Kurson's piece cites a Miami Herald article stating that typically, when Cuban authorities deny someone entry to the island nation, it happens on the ground in Cuba, and not at a U.S. airport.When asked whether she fears that the attention given her case might put her in danger, Ramos said that, on the contrary, she feels safer in the spotlight.A Terrorist's Death Sentence ReimposedOn March 4, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in a 6-3 ruling to reinstate the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving member of the pair of brothers who set off two bombs at the Boston Marathon in 2013, killing three people and injuring hundreds, and then went on a rampage in the course of which they murdered a young MIT police officer and caused still more chaos, injuries, and destruction in the Boston area.An article in National Review published shortly after the ruling details the reasoning put to use by Justice Clarence Thomas, who spoke for the majority when stating that the defendant had received a fair trial before an impartial jury as required under the Sixth Amendment.Defending Academic Freedom, in the New York Times?On March 7 the New York Times published a guest essay by Emma Camp, a senior at the University of Virginia, entitled “I Came to College Eager to Debate. I Found Self-Censorship Instead.” Some students are so terrified of social repercussions—and of getting a lower grade for speaking out in class—that they choose to clam up no matter how wrong they may find the viewpoint of a professor or a fellow student to be.

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - The leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church warned Saturday that Russian bombardments have left some people in Ukraine without heat in freezing temperatures. In a video message on March 5, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk urged the international community to do everything possible so that humanitarian convoys can access cities where Russian shelling has cut off power and water to residential districts. The major archbishop expressed concern that “a humanitarian catastrophe is beginning” in Ukrainian cities that have been surrounded by Russian forces. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/250583/ukrainian-archbishop-warns-that-bombings-have-left-people-without-heat-in-freezing-temperatures Pope Francis condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine and expressed his solidarity with the country on Sunday, lamenting that, quote, “rivers of blood and tears are flowing in Ukraine.” The pope announced his desire to help the Ukrainian people achieve peace, and repeated his call from the previous week for humanitarian corridors to provide relief to Ukrainians. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/250585/pope-francis-sends-cardinals-to-ukraine-where-rivers-of-blood-and-tears-flow The US Supreme Court on Friiday reinstated the death penalty to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man convicted of killing four people in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, after a lower court had overturned it in 2020. In a 6-3 decision, with Justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor dissenting, the court found that Tsarnaev had received a fair trial in 2015 and had been justly sentenced to death. Although the past three presidential administrations have sought to execute Tsarnaev, the Archdiocese of Boston has called for his sentence to be commuted to life without parole, citing Catholic teaching on the death penalty. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/250577/supreme-court-reinstates-death-penalty-for-boston-marathon-bomber Today, the Church celebrates Saints Perpetua and Felicity, young martyrs who died for the faith around the year 203. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/sts-perpetua-and-felicity-and-their-companions-169

Today on Boston Public Radio: We begin the show by opening phone lines, talking with listeners about surging gas prices associated with Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Shirley Leung talks about the closure of Amazon's brick and mortar bookstores, and the Green Line extension to Somerville. Leung is a business columnist for the Boston Globe. David Leonard shares how people increasingly turned to library services throughout the pandemic. Leonard is the president of the Boston Public Library. Bill McKibben discusses the UN's recent climate report, and concerns over Russian attacks on nuclear power plants in Ukraine. McKibben is an author, educator and environmentalist. He's the founder of 350.org and ThirdAct.org. He has a new newsletter on Substack titled “The Crucial Years.” He's also got a new, serialized book titled “The Other Cheek: An Epic Nonviolent Yarn.” Judge Nancy Gertner weighs in on the Supreme Court's reinstatement of the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Judge Gertner is a retired U.S. District Judge for the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts. She's currently a senior lecturer on law at Harvard University. Andy Ihnatko updates us on the latest tech headlines, explaining how the tech industry has responded to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Ihnatko is a tech writer and blogger, posting at Ihnatko.com. Callie Crossley talks about the life and legacy of Autherine Lucy Foster, the first Black woman to attend the University of Alabama. She also discusses the racism facing African students fleeing Ukraine. Crossley hosts GBH's Under the Radar and Basic Black.  Sue O'Connell shares her thoughts on Gov. Greg Abbott's order targeting the parents of transgender kids, and reflects on the queerness of Gen Z. O'Connell is the co-publisher of Bay Windows and South End News, and contributor to Current, on NBC L-X and NECN. We wrap up the show by talking with listeners about the 50th anniversary of The Godfather.

Supreme Court upholds death sentence of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Listen for more details. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

In our news wrap Friday, a suicide bombing killed at least 56 people and wounded more than 190 during Friday prayers at a Shiite mosque in Pakistan, Florida becomes the latest GOP-led state to adopt strict new abortion limits, the Supreme Court reinstated the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and retired Black NFL players denied payments for dementia can be retested. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

In part two of our episode diving into the Boston Marathon Bombing, we take a look at the investigation and trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the justice that was handed down to him. Currently, he sits in solitary confinement, wondering if he will be executed for his crimes. SPONSORS: PodDecks: www.poddecks.com - PromoCode Larry21 for 10% off your order Hunt A Killer: www.huntakiller.com - Promo Code TCNS for 20% off your first box DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST ON ALL MAJOR PODCAST PLATFORMS. Follow Us on Social Media Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/truecrimeneversleepspodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/truecrimens IG: https://www.instagram.com/truecrimeneversleepspodcast If you like our content, consider becoming a financial supporter: Buy Us A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/tcns Become a Patron: https://patreon.com/truecrimeneversleeps

Let's talk about how Dzhokhar Tsarnaev received stimulus money from the federal government, on top of the millions he already owes.

The Boston Marathon bombing was a domestic terrorist attack that took place during the annual Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. Two terrorists and brothers, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, planted two homemade pressure cooker bombs, which detonated 14 seconds and 210 yards (190 m) apart at 2:49 p.m., near the finish line of the race, killing 3 people and injuring hundreds of others, including 17 who lost limbs. This is the first part of a two part episode on the Boston Bombing. SPONSORS: PodDecks: www.poddecks.com - PromoCode Larry21 for 10% off your order Hunt A Killer: www.huntakiller.com - Promo Code TCNS for 20% off your first box DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST ON ALL MAJOR PODCAST PLATFORMS. Follow Us on Social Media Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/truecrimeneversleepspodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/truecrimens IG: https://www.instagram.com/truecrimeneversleepspodcast If you like our content, consider becoming a financial supporter: Buy Us A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/tcns Become a Patron: https://patreon.com/truecrimeneversleeps

Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg legal reporter, discusses the college admissions scandal and the likely appeals issues for the two parents convicted at trial. John Blume, a professor at Cornell Law School and Director of the Cornell Death Penalty Project, discusses the Supreme Court's arguments over the reinstatement of the death sentence for the Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. June Grasso hosts. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - President Joe Biden and his wife Jill will meet with Pope Francis on October 29th at the Vatican. The White House confirmed the visit today. This will be Biden's first meeting with the pope during his presidency. Biden previously met with Pope Francis in 2016, as vice president. He also spoke on the phone with Pope Francis last year, when the pope congratulated him on his election as president. The Supreme Court heard arguments this week about whether or not to reinstate a federal death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Tsarnaev was sentenced to death in 2015, but a three-judge panel of the First Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the sentence in 2020. The panel unanimously found that he had not received a fair trial. A prominent Anglican bishop has entered into full communion with the Catholic Church. The Right Reverend Michael Nazir-Ali was once considered a potential future Archbishop of Canterbury. He reportedly could be ordained as a Catholic priest as early as the end of the month, within the ordinariate. Benedict XVI created the ordinariate in 2011 for former Anglicans wishing to preserve elements of their patrimony. Three seminarians abducted from their seminary in central Nigeria this week have been released. Bandits abducted the seminarians Monday evening, and injured six other seminarians. Kidnappings of Christians in Nigeria have become more common in recent years. Today, the Church remembers Pope Callistus I. Not much is certain about Pope Callistus' life. He was martyred in 222 by an anti-Christian mob.

Blair reports on the SCOTUS review of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence. While the conviction isn't challenged, the Trump administration had petitioned a review when the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the sentence in favor of life imprisonment back in 2020. The Biden administration has not withdrawn the petition to reinstate the death penalty.

A deeper look into why Dzhokhar Tsarnaev chose to detonate bombs at the 2013 Boston Marathon.

Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev detonated two pressure cooker bombs in a crowd at the 2013 Boston Marathon. We try to understand what caused them to do this.

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - The Justice Department has asked the Supreme Court to reinstate a death sentence for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, for his role in the Boston Marathon bombings. The past three administrations have pushed for the federal death penalty for Tsarnaev. The Boston archdiocese has instead called for life in prison without parole. Catholic bishops will consecrate the Middle East to the Holy Family on June 27. The consecration will take place during Mass, in the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth. Catholic bishops throughout the Middle East will then celebrate an annual Mass for peace starting June 27. Catholics should take courage in the fact that, even as Jesus was dying on the cross, his most agonizing moment on earth, he was praying for them. Those were the words of Pope Francis in his general audience today. The pope said that “even in the most painful of our sufferings, we are never alone.” A street in the capital city of Burkina Faso has been renamed after Pope emeritus Benedict XVI. The country's apostolic nunciature is located on the street. Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa, with a population of 20 million people, around 19% of whom are baptized Catholics. Today is the feast day of Saint John Francis Regis. The 17th-century French Jesuit is remembered for his zealous missionary work, and his care for the poor and marginalized. Although June 16 was established as his feast day, there are differing local and particular customs, including the Jesuits' celebration of his feast on July 2.

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a lower court opinion that wiped away the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the brothers convicted in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three spectators and injured hundreds.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

The Total Tutor Neil Haley will interview Liz & JP Norden and filmmakers Ricki Stern & Annie Sundberg.   Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing recounts the dramatic story of the April 2013 terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon through the emotional experiences of individuals whose lives were forever impacted. Following events as they unfolded that day and over the next two years to the death penalty sentencing of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the film features surveillance footage, news clips, home movies and exclusive interviews with survivors and their families, as well as first responders, investigators, government officials and reporters from the Boston Globe, which won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the bombing.  Over the course of three years, a newlywed couple, a mother and daughter, two brothers – all gravely injured by the blast – face the challenges of physical and emotional recovery as they and their families strive to reclaim their lives and communities in the wake of terrorism. Directed by Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg.  Produced in association with The Boston Globe.

Prosecutors have spent the last month presenting some haunting evidence against admitted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, which seems to go beyond what the government needs to do to convict him and begins to build the case that he should be sentenced to death. Boeri and Cullen discuss Day 15 of the trial, in which the government called its final witness to tell the jury of the horrific death of 8-year-old Martin Richard near the finish line.

The enduring images from the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing are of mass carnage - of innocent people with their limbs blown off by two pressure-cooker bombs placed near the finish line. Boeri and Cullen discuss Day 14 in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, when the prosecution demonstrated that those bombs were intended to cause maximum death and destruction.

Every time you send a text message, swipe a credit card, use a GPS system or go into a public building, you leave a digital record of your activities. And if you're 19 years old, those records are likely to be extensive. Boeri and Cullen review the data dump the prosecution unloaded on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his deceased older brother, Tamerlan, in Day 13 of the trial.

Sam Harris discusses the Heaven’s Gate suicide cult and argues that we all have something important to learn from them about the power of belief. The following videos are discussed: Audio Transcript: Welcome to the Making Sense podcast. This is Sam Harris. Today I’m going to talk about cults, mostly. I’ve been in a cultish frame of mind in the last week—and getting over bronchitis, so my apologies for my voice being even raspier than it usually is. But I’ve been paying attention to cults for some reason, and I’ve focused on two that have been around for a while, Heaven’s Gate and Scientology. I recently saw the film Going Clear based on Lawrence Wright’s book by that name. The book is well worth-reading, and the film is really a devastating takedown of Scientology. I can’t imagine it won’t do the organization lasting harm if enough people see it. It exposes how goofy L. Ron Hubbard was and how sinister his organization soon became under him and his successors. So, do see that film. It’s playing on HBO and had a theatrical release, as well. But I’ve mostly been thinking about the Heaven’s Gate cult which, as you might recall, about 18 years ago came to the world’s attention because 39 members—including the chief member, a man named Marshall Applewhite who was known as “Doe” to his devotees—all took their lives in a mansion near San Diego. They all donned identical pairs of Nikes and drank a cocktail of phenobarbital and vodka, I believe, and then got in their bunk beds and covered themselves with purple shrouds and departed, they imagined, for a spaceship that was following in the tail of the comet Hale-Bopp. So this was a rather horrifying and peculiar news item. I think it remains the largest mass-suicide in US history, although I recall that my reaction at the time was a little less than reverential. I remember sitting on my couch watching this first footage that came out of this house, with everyone on their bunk beds with their Nikes, and hearing the voiceover announcer say, “And in their freezer, they had nothing but quart after quart of Starbuck’s Java Chip ice cream.” I remember sitting on my couch alone and saying, out loud, to myself, “Wait a minute. Starbucks makes ice cream?” And then I leapt to my feet and drove straight to the supermarket and bought some Java Chip ice cream. So I guess we all draw from these tragedies the lessons we need at the time. Obviously I’ve become more sympathetic to the plight of these people in the intervening years, and more interested in the phenomenon of cults, and have drawn other lessons from this one. In any case, the most fascinating thing about Heaven’s Gate is that the members of this “class,” as they called it, left final video testimonies as to why they were doing what they were doing, and how satisfied they were to be doing it. And this is, of course, analogous to the video testimonies one often finds from Jihadist suicide bombers. But these people were very aware of how inscrutable their behavior was going to seem to their loved ones, and to the rest of the society in which they were living, and they really made their best effort to defend their actions if not explain them, and to simply bear witness—and demand that the world bear witness—to the psychological fact that they were absolutely unconflicted in doing what they were doing. They felt immense gratitude for the experience of living for decades with their fellow cult members with whom they’d formed an obvious bond, and for the guidance of Doe and Ti—the woman who had been his partner and died a decade earlier. These were people who, for the most part, were clearly happy and approaching their deaths with genuine enthusiasm. They were gleeful about the prospect of departing this world and arriving elsewhere in the galaxy. So these videos are an amazing document, and I was tempted to put some audio in this podcast, but there really is no substitute for seeing the video themselves, so I will embed those on my blog. There’s about 2 hours of video—there’s additional hours of Doe himself giving his final testimony, and that’s also fascinating to watch. But the videos of the cult members are really profoundly strange and unnerving when you see just how sanguine they are about their whole project—which is, on its face, the most profligate misuse of human life imaginable. These are people who lived in total isolation, for decades, under the sway of obviously crazy ideas, depriving themselves of most of life’s experience. These are people who’d abandoned children. They’d abandoned the rest of their families, and abandoned every other human project that we might deem worthy of a person’s attention and energy, and then killed themselves in the most carefree state of mind. And it was entirely the result of what they believed about the nature of the soul, about the kingdom of heaven, about the hideous condition of this world, and about the coming apocalypse that Doe assured them was imminent and that this represented the last chance to migrate to the kingdom of heaven. If they didn’t seize it now, everything would be lost. So these videos really are quite unique and, above all, they offer an insight into just what it is like to be totally convinced of paradise. The most shocking thing about this—well there are a few things. One is the undeniable fact that most of these people were clearly happy. You struggle to detect in their faces and in their speech some clue to their deeper psychopathology. And in many cases, I think you will come up entirely empty. Now, these people bear all the signs of having spent, as most of them had, twenty plus years living in total isolation from the world. Most of them had been part of this cult since the mid-Seventies—and this was in 1997 that they killed themselves. They all wore identical terrible haircuts and all had androgynous clothing that they buttoned up to the neck. I believe they shared all of their clothing in common, including underwear—so they had a dogma of non-attachment that was operating here that led to a kind of self-effacement at the level of their presentation. They all wore equally terrible eyeglasses, those who needed them—like they all wandered into a Lenscrafters and asked for the worst pair of glasses that could possibly be pulled out of the box. So there’s something about these people, they are misfits of a sort, and it’s tempting to imagine that they were socially marginalized to a degree that somehow explains how they were recruited into this circumstance and, therefore, how they met their end. But that’s not to say that these aren’t happy, intelligent, relatively high-functioning people who could have succeeded in other contexts in life. And I think that’s obviously true of some of them. One thing that’s clear is that many of these people were parents who entirely abandoned their children to join Doe and Ti and submit their lives to this experiment which, when you look at the details, is rather shocking to consider. It’s shocking especially because when you listen to the teachings of Doe (you can also watch hours of video where he describes all that he knows about the workings of the universe), some of this video, at least an hour of it, is his final testament given with the full knowledge that they’re going to commit suicide in the coming days. And in watching Do’s performance here, I think you’ll also look in vain for an obvious reason why people would give their lives over to this man. A few things are conspicuous. One is the total absence of compelling intellectual content. This is not a brilliant person. He is not bowling you over with his ability to connect ideas or to turn phrases. The only clue to his powers of mesmerism is his quality of eye contact, which, as I discuss at one point in my book Waking Up, is a feature you find in gurus in general and in people who are making heroic efforts to persuade. And in Doe, this is conspicuous. The man rarely blinks. He’s looking at a camera lens for this video, but one can well imagine that this is the style of eye contact he used when talking to people directly. Maybe I’ll offer a brief digression on this topic, there’s actually a section in my book Waking Up where I talk about eye contact and I’ll just read it to you: A person’s eyes convey a powerful illusion of inner life. The illusion is true, but it is an illusion all the same. When we look into the eyes of another human being, we seem to see the light of consciousness radiating from the eyes themselves—there is a glint of joy or judgment, perhaps. But every inflection of mood or personality—even the most basic indication that the person is alive—comes not from the eyes but from the surrounding muscles of the face. If a person’s eyes look clouded by madness or fatigue, the muscles orbicularis oculi are to blame. And if a person appears to radiate the wisdom of the ages, the effect comes not from the eyes but from what he or she is doing with them. Nevertheless, the illusion is a powerful one, and there is no question that the subjective experience of inner radiance can be communicated with the gaze. It is not an accident, therefore, that gurus often show an unusual commitment to maintaining eye contact. In the best case, this behavior emerges from a genuine comfort in the presence of other people and deep interest in their well-being. Given such a frame of mind, there may simply be no reason to look away. But maintaining eye contact can also become a way of “acting spiritual” and, therefore, an intrusive affectation. There are also people who maintain rigid eye lock not from an attitude of openness and interest or from any attempt to appear open and interested but as an aggressive and narcissistic show of dominance. Psychopaths tend to make exceptionally good eye contact. Whatever the motive behind it, there can be tremendous power in an unwavering gaze. Most readers will know what I’m talking about, but if you want to witness a glorious example of the assertive grandiosity that a person’s eyes can convey, watch a few interviews with Osho. I never met Osho, but I have met many people like him. And the way he plays the game of eye contact is simply hilarious. I confess that there was a period in my life, after I first plunged into matters spiritual, when I became a nuisance in this respect. Wherever I went, no matter how superficial the exchange, I gazed into the eyes of everyone I met as though they were my long-lost lover. No doubt, many people found this more than a bit creepy. Others considered it a stark provocation. But it also precipitated exchanges with complete strangers that were fascinating. With some regularity people of both sexes seemed to become bewitched by me on the basis of a single conversation. Had I been peddling some consoling philosophy and been eager to gather students, I suspect that I could have made a proper mess of things. I definitely glimpsed the path that many spiritual imposters have taken throughout history. Interestingly, when one functions in this mode, one quickly recognizes all the other people who are playing the same game. I had many encounters wherein I would meet the eyes of a person across the room, and suddenly we were playing War of the Warlocks: two strangers holding each other’s gaze well past the point that our primate genes or cultural conditioning would ordinarily countenance. Play this game long enough and you begin to have some very strange encounters. I don’t remember consciously deciding to stop behaving this way, but stop I did. In any case, I think Doe was probably a master of the unblinking gaze, and this may account for why he had the effect he had on people because, having read some of his writing, if you can call it that, and listened to him speak about his doctrine, there’s nothing in the text of what he says that should have compelled people to follow him, much less follow him into their graves. But he persuaded people to follow him with surprising suddenness. There’s an account of one of his earlier meetings, I think in the early Seventies, where something like twenty people from a single lecture dropped their lives and disappeared from Portland or Seattle or wherever this talk happened—leaving their kids, and their parents, and their friends just aghast—and followed this man into the wilderness. So something was going on. I don’t know if it was the cologne he was wearing or the way he was boring holes into people’s heads with his eyes, but the man had something that people found profoundly attractive. So I think I should give a brief account of what Doe was teaching people. He claimed to be an extraterrestrial who inhabited his body, the body of Marshall Applewhite, at some point in adulthood. And he also claimed to be the same reincarnate personality who had been Jesus and who had gathered apostles, many of whom were now in the Heaven’s Gate class. So he had this project previously of trying to bring people to the Kingdom of Heaven, to the level above human, as the person of Jesus, but had failed because he had had the bad luck of getting crucified. And now he was back, delivering the wisdom of the ages. But now he could deliver it with a modern gloss. Now he could take into account the immensity of the cosmos and the existence of technology, like spacecraft, and now the Kingdom of Heaven was a place elsewhere in the physical universe that could be reached by dying at this most opportune time. Originally he had suggested that spaceships would actually land on earth and physically take people to this intergalactic space station where the level above human was being lived out by aliens, but since the spaceships didn’t land—and they had waited for years and years for spaceships to land—but since they didn’t, now the way to get to the space ship, which was trailing the comet Hale-Bopp, was to die and to leave the physical body. And all of these years of living in isolation was a preparation for the soul to take its place in this kingdom above human. These were the teachings from the beginning. I don’t think suicide was ever spoken of in the beginning because, again, they expected aliens to land and spirit them away on flying saucers. But death was often talked about as a possible way to get to the Kingdom of Heaven. In fact, cult members talked about hoping to provoke their own assassinations. In how they represented the teachings in front of fundamentalist Christians, they hoped that Christians would find their views so offensive that they would kill them and then engineer their escape to the next level. And Doe and Ti talked often—they believed that they were the two witnesses from the book of Revelation, and they thought that they would be martyred and brought to the Kingdom of Heaven that way. So death was always kind of working in the background and the idea was simply to live life in such a way as to divorce oneself from all human (“mammalian,” as he put it) appetites and prepare the soul to take a non-human form, on a spaceship. What I think is so interesting about this phenomenon and what can be seen so clearly by looking at these tapes is the role that belief played in driving this behavior. This behavior is totally uninterpretable but for the beliefs that these people espouse—and, given these beliefs, it seems to make rather clear sense. Looking at these tapes is a corrective to the crazy denials we hear from so many journalists and pseudo-journalists and social scientists and politicians about the link between belief and action in a religious context. So many people talk about religious beliefs as though they do not lead to behavior, that they’re somehow different from other sorts of beliefs—but of course we must know this isn’t true. And yet so many people pretend to know otherwise. Well, you can’t pretend here. There’s nothing apart from belief—no other variable explains this behavior. What these people did was as straightforward as going to the candy store, given what they believed. So these exit interviews are a kind of microscope for the relevant psychology here, and when you map this on to the phenomenon of jihadism—in particular the kind of suicide bombing we see throughout the Muslim world—then the centrality of belief becomes obvious. And all of the obscurantism coming from people like Scott Atran and Karen Armstrong and Reza Aslan stands revealed for what it is, a denial of the obvious. One can view cults as a kind of lens through which to view the phenomenon of the true believer. Of course, every religion is a kind of cult which just has more subscribers. That’s how we differentiate cults from religions. If you have millions of subscribers, you are a religion. If you have thousands—or, in this case, 40—then you are a cult. Now, it’s true that being in a tiny minority, and having to set yourself in opposition to the rest of your culture and to the religion of your birth, will tend to select for the truest of the true believers—the most credulous and most committed people. So cult members have, almost by definition, something in common with what we call “religious extremists” in the context of a religion. The buy-in is greater for a cult. To drop everything for a religion focused on UFOs, as was the case for Heaven’s Gate, takes a certain kind of person. And when you look at these people, you see some of the aberration of all of that. These are like the most fanatical people at a Star Trek convention who also happen to believe in the rapture. The Venn Diagram of cognitive commitments here is Trekky and people who took the Left Behind novels seriously. But you also should also remember that you’re watching people who are about to die. These are people who are planning to commit suicide in the next few days and they’re telling you why and they’re telling you how this fits into their worldview. And it is fascinating to see and quite tragic when you think about how these people used their lives—when you think of the children and the parents, and the other family members they abandoned—and when you finally grok the fact that these weren’t all mentally ill people. They were merely in the grip of specific ideas. What’s interesting about the behavior of this group of people, in fact, is that up until they killed themselves what they were doing was not that far from things that I’ve done (at least for months at a time, never for years). During my twenties, I spent about two years on silent meditation retreats in increments of up to three months and these were without question some of the most productive and valuable months of my life. And the best meditation teachers that I ever studied with were people who had truly spent decades in isolation, in some cases twenty years in a cave. So it’s not isolation itself that is synonymous with the wastage of one’s life. What one believes one is doing in isolation matters a lot. If you go into isolation for a year, and you hole yourself up in an apartment in some city with a dozen Barbie dolls and think that by the power of your concentration on these objects you’re going to turn them into real little girls—okay, you’re just a crazy pervert. Isolation can obviously become a circumstance of unethical delusion. In the case of Heaven’s Gate, it was clearly a circumstance of delusion. All of their discipline was anchored to the project of attenuating their humanity so fully that they would be welcome aboard a spaceship. And part of this project was consummated by the men by going to Tijuana and having themselves castrated. Eight of the men in this group, including Doe, the leader, had themselves castrated so that they could best resist the siren song of their own endocrine system and forget about sexuality altogether. And because of what they believed about the soul and where they were going after the death of their bodies, they felt truly lucky to be who they were. They were leaving a sinking ship and felt compassion for all of the confused people like ourselves who didn’t have the good sense to get off it. But the horror, of course, is that they were wrong. Their beliefs were almost certainly false in every respect, and this is the horror of religion generally. This is the horror of Islamism and jihadism. And, again, what is central to the phenomenon—the thing that makes it horrible and yet so captivating to true believers—is this promise of paradise. It’s the idea that most of what is good in any individual’s existence is the part that comes after death. That is really the claim that, just, leeches all of the value out of this world. For instance, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving Boston Marathon bomber, wrote on the side of the boat where he was finally captured, “Know you are fighting men who look into the barrel of your gun and see heaven, now how can you compete with that?” That’s what we’re dealing with, this expectation of paradise. I recently read an interview with a former ISIS fighter who spoke about the same thing. He talked about being motivated by his concern for the afterlife, which he called “the surest part of life.” The surest part of life. Paradise is the thing that you can most count on. It is the repository of most value. But, of course, it’s not the surest part of life at all. It’s at best an hypothesis, founded on nothing. But this is exactly the sentiment you get from the Heaven’s Gate members. They’re talking about how happy they will be when they finally get to the level above human, the Kingdom of Heaven. Look at what is going on in the Middle East—look at the behavior of a group like ISIS, look at the Western recruits who, by the thousands, are coming to fight alongside these guys, and recognize that, whatever the diversity of their backgrounds, whatever the variables we are told account for this behavior, simply realize that these people also believe what they say they believe, and that belief, in their case too, is the primary driver of behavior. These people, who in the case of ISIS are murdering apostates and seeking to murder vast numbers of their enemies, are just as eager to die, just as unconflicted about the apparent misuse of their lives in this world, just as expectant of eternity as the class members of Heaven’s Gate were. And when you have that epiphany, you’ll be in a position to see how confused most people are by current events. So much of what passes for an analysis of Islamism and jihadism, at this moment, skates across this psychological fact, or denies it outright, looking for other reasons for the phenomenon. And whatever contributions these other reasons might make—whatever contributions U.S. foreign policy, or the legacy of colonialism, or the lack of integration of Muslims in Western Europe might play—the basic fact, the fact at the core of the phenomenon, held and held deeply, is the belief in paradise. The belief that death is an illusion and that this world, therefore, can be forsaken—in fact, its purpose is to be forsaken. Unless one has some countervailing philosophy that demands a truly ethical engagement with this world, a belief in paradise makes a person capable of anything. Nothing can go wrong. You can blow up crowds of children, and you’re doing them a favor. That’s what makes this type of religious certainty so terrifying. But the impulse to deny its power—to deny that it is even operating—is more terrifying still. In lying about the motivations of these people, we are sleepwalking towards a precipice. Perhaps it’s time we all woke up.

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