So we kill someone to show that killing someone is wrong

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69. Lingzi Lu died with her intestines in her hands

The jury was also clearly moved when Jinyan “Helen” Zhao, an aunt of Lu, talked about the family’s decision to bury her in Boston. She said most Chinese families cremate their loved ones, but Lu’s mother thought her daughter, a Boston University graduate student, loved Boston so much that she should remain here, even if not alive.

“How she died and why she died — it just felt like she was part of Boston, part of the city,” Zhao said. “[They] just felt she should be here.”

Zhao said that Lu’s parents had their daughter buried wearing a tiara and a pink, wedding-style dress, and included in her coffin a music box and some favorite books.

Zhao said Lu was the family’s only child, and her decision to come to Boston was something her parents struggled to accept. But once they did, they scraped together the money to send her to graduate school.

“I could tell she was really appreciative of what her parents did for her,’’ Zhao testified.

In an anecdote that brought laughter from jurors, Zhao recalled how Lu was a tiny woman with an appetite so large that she once consumed an entire apple pie, spoonful by spoonful.

“I wondered, ‘Is she going to finish the whole pie?’ And she did,’’ said Zhao, who spoke to Lu on a weekly basis.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/04/22/sentencing-phase-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-trial-set-resume-wednesday/QbdLyqpiKfWvfaqLrrKnqJ/story.html

Zhou’s organs were spilling out of a gash on her stomach. She pushed her insides back in while she tried to calm Lu down. Afraid that screaming might waste what was left of her energy, Zhou waited for an ambulance in silence.

By the time Boston Police Officer Lauren Woods found Lu, she was alone.

“Her whole body was shaking quivering. She had vomit in her hair, eyes were rolling in and out,” Woods called. She stuck her fingers down Lu’s throat, trying to clear the vomit. Others came to try to help with chest compressions.

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2015/03/11/linzi-lu-tsarnaev-trial/

TL;DR Lingzi Lu was the only child her family had, due to the one-child policy. They wanted to send their daughter to a Chinese uni, but she wanted to live in America. Her parents relented and put their savings toward sending her to Boston U. She died in terror with her organs spilling out of her stomach. Her parents put her trust in us as a nation to protect her and we let in some radical fuckwits like the Tsarnaev brothers to take her life and ruin her family.

I save my sympathy for those wrongly accused. Genuinely I hope his execution is botched so he can experience a tiny fraction of what Lu went through in her final moments. We all watch war criminals like Cheney and Bush walk around free, these drone operators the Obama administration allows to vaporize families, all without any possibility of justice. At least this one guy is getting what he deserves. It isn't about revenge for a lot of us, just the need for some sense of karmic justice.