Death Penalty for Tsarnaev?

Mel Robbins, and I agree with her:

(CNN)Almost two years since the Tsarnaev brothers allegedly placed two bombs at the Boston Marathon finish line, turning the city’s beloved Patriot’s Day race into a war zone, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is finally going on trial.

By the time the brothers were captured (one dead, one alive), they were accused of having killed four people, blown the limbs off another 16 and injured more than 260. But while I have heard many say they wish the authorities had simply added the younger Tsarnaev brother to the list of the deceased while they had the chance, that didn’t happen. So now we find ourselves facing down a trial.

Tsarnaev will be convicted (after all, the prosecution has, according to The New York Times, lined up 590 law enforcement witnesses, 142 civilians and more than 1,000 exhibits, including images of him placing his backpack — believed to have contained a bomb — near an 8-year-old killed by the explosion). But it is unclear what the punishment will be.

That raises what is perhaps the key question of the case: Should we kill Tsarnaev? And the answer, despite the abhorrent nature of the crime, is simple: No, we should not. We are better than that.

The fact is that the death penalty isn’t justice, it’s revenge.