Mass./Boston tends to be kinda Blue when it comes to stuff of this nature...so I'm kinda impressed that they decided to put their big boy pants on and execute the man for his crime.
Granted, he did go after the Boston Marathon...so that would piss them off something fierce.
But well...we'll see what happens between here and there...
~Jeordam
Massachusetts does not believe in the death penalty. And the majority of residents of Massachusetts oppose giving Tsarnaev the death penalty as well - either because of no belief in death penalty or because they want to see this dude rot in jail for the next 80 years. So the jury pool became very narrow due to the idea of the death penalty.
As an aside, the last execution in Massachusetts was in 1947.