The Boston Marathon Bomber Is Undoubtedly Guilty, But Should He Be Executed?
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.5 • 24.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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This episode: White House correspondent Asma Khalid, legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg, and WBUR's Deborah Becker.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Kathy from Athens, Georgia. |
| 0:02.8 | I'm a mobile vet and I just made my weekly visit to a local animal shelter, |
| 0:07.4 | where I looked at a sick kitten and vaccinated 12 dogs and cats against rabies. |
| 0:12.2 | This podcast was recorded at 2.13 pm Eastern Time on Thursday, October 14th. |
| 0:18.8 | Some things may have changed by the time you hear it. |
| 0:21.2 | For instance, maybe some of my patients will be in there forever homes. |
| 0:26.0 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:30.0 | Oh gosh, that ticked me a moment to process what she was saying forever homes. |
| 0:34.0 | Oh, it's a good news for them. |
| 0:36.0 | Hey everyone, it's the NPR Politics podcast. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm a smah holly, I cover the White House. |
| 0:41.0 | And I'm Nina Tottenberg, I cover the Supreme Court. |
| 0:44.0 | And today on the show, we're going to talk about the Boston Marathon bomber |
| 0:47.0 | and how his case and whether he should receive the death penalty seems to have created |
| 0:52.0 | a rare consensus between conservative justices of the Supreme Court and the Biden administration. |
| 0:57.0 | Yesterday, the case was heard before the Supreme Court and we're going to get into the arguments in just a moment. |
| 1:02.0 | But first, let's bring in my old colleague, a fantastic reporter from Boston's NPR station WBUR, |
| 1:08.0 | Deb Becker. Hey Deb. |
| 1:10.0 | Hey, Osmo, thank you. |
| 1:12.0 | I am so glad that you're able to join us. |
| 1:14.0 | Nice to hear you. |
| 1:15.0 | So Deb, back in 2013, Jahar Sarnayev and his older brother, Tamerlin, |
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