influence their decision whether it s life or death. that s his only chance out of this. i don t even think they re going to put him on the stand to try to save his life because i don t think they can trust him to get up there and not rant and rave about something. so i think that if he can be humanized in this portion of the case his life will be spared. very liberal up in massachusetts as we said earlier. no state death penalty, federal death penalty. here s the conundrum for them fred. do they sentence him to death, which will make him a martyr give him his 1,000 virgins. which he scrawled in the boat the night he was apprehended, he was jealous for his brother for having found death, life after death, how he was hoping for that. and years and years of appeals and money, or do they give him life in prison and enit right there with parole with some appeals but that will it it. that will give closure. i think we re going to be looking at life in prison.
trial? just plead guilty, not necessarily get the death sentence? was there ever even seriously considered by the defense and the prosecution? . i d have to go back over my notes as to whether there was even a whisper of an overture. but my spidey senses say absolutely not. the people of massachusetts while pretty much against the death penalty if you take the polls seriously, are horrifyingly offended by what was perpetrated against their neighbors and their own. and i don t know that any prosecutor would look at a fact pattern that they had gifted to them and i say that because it s almost open and shut. and then would make the overture of a deal. and let s not forget this is federal these are federal prosecutors, not state prosecutors. there s no state death penalty in that state. no i think this is so open and shut and so easy and quite frankly, if you look at how long this case has taken, it s not been one of the more expensive
and national correspondent sunny hostin and in russia where the boston bombers come from. this is our correspondent there. susan candiotti, first to you, me how rare of a move this is for the attorney general. certainly he has been personally opposed to the death penalty all his career. he always said he would carry out the possibility as it is the law of the land. it is quite rare and interestingly enough, only three people have been executed in the united states under the federal death penalty since it was reinstated many years ago. one of them was oklahoma city bomber, timothy mcveigh and i covered that case. there is no state death penalty in massachusetts. that s something else to consider. most people in the state of massachusetts do not favor the death penalty. those are the people who will make up this jury.
massachusetts there is no state death penalty, but there is the death penalty under federal law, and so he is, you know, there is that exposure. the remainder authorize a max penalty of life in prison. so any way you slice this, if this if he gets only convicted of one of the lesser charges, it s still an exposure of life in prison. i will tell you this, no decision, it appears, has been made as to whether or not it is going the government is going to seek the death penalty, but there is a process that one has to go through in the federal government to determine whether or not they will seek the death penalty and there s a death penalty review committee, and so that determination hasn t been made yet, but, of course, as i just mentioned, 17 of these counts are death penalty eligible. so this is a significant, significant case. it s incredible. 17. sunny hostin, thank you so much. we ll come back to you. also we re going to take you back to what is happening there in boston. spe
have a state death penalty. the victims will have to consent to a death penalty. i m not sure her going to go there. he s going to claim his brother brainwashed me. that will be the theme of the trial. he was brainwashed by the 26-year-old and did everything under his spell. he had no prior history of any legal or criminal history and he was a good kid. he was a hard working kid. he dun deserve to die. come on. dr. fox also said that the so-called brainwashing ended once his older brother died and he s giving all this information including wouldn t it be a difficult thing to prove he was completely brainwashed. why would he not be brainwashed now, avery? that s right, that s right. the fact is we heard a very short time ago that the chair of the house intelligence committee mike rogers wants to have a full