CNN Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield January 30, 2014 16:58:00
Death penalty. there is so much emotion in this case. >> oh, yes. >> this tsarnaev fella is not some guy from a state you've never been to who committed a crime you never heard of. this is an alleged terrorist. and this is the boston marathon. does all of that emotion factor into this? >> definitely. partly a political decision as well as a rational one. d.o.j. has a procedure in place where they have to look at certain criteria to determine whether or not death should be sought. prior criminal record, the age, whether or not he was under the influence of somebody else, whether or not it was p...
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