Now that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been found guilty on all counts for his part in the Boston Marathon bombing of 2013, the only question seems to be what to do with him: kill him or put him in prison for the rest of his life.

I’m against the death penalty.  Not just because of my Quaker beliefs against killing, but because it’s not justice, it’s revenge, and as we’ve learned in a number of cases, it’s applied to people who turn out to be innocent.

There’s no doubt about Mr. Tsarnaev’s guilt, but the recent case of Anthony Ray Hinton in Alabama where it took thirty years to prove his innocence tell us that mistakes (and not a little prejudice) happen, and there are no backsies in capital punishment.

I have no sympathy for him and his cause, nor do I believe that he was just some impressionable kid caught up in his brother’s madness.  He’s an adult and he’s old enough to make his own decisions.  He did it, he was caught, he needs to pay for it.  Killing him won’t accomplish that; in goes the needle, he goes to sleep, that’s it.  It’s a much more fitting punishment that he be forced to spend the next sixty years or so in a small cell with no human contact for 22 hours a day.