Morning Updates: Closing arguments in marathon bombing trial, why not to tweet
Good morning, Boston. Here are the stories you need to know for the day ahead.
Amtrak train crash kills at least 6, injures more: “An Amtrak train headed to New York City derailed and tipped over in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, tearing the cars apart and killing at least five people. … ‘The train started to decelerate, like someone had slammed the brake,’ train rider Paul Cheung said. ‘Then suddenly you could see everything starting to shake … You could see people’s stuff flying over me.’’’ (Boston.com)
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Dead or alive? The fate of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s life will be placed in the hands of the jury after closing arguments are made today. Over the past few weeks, both teams of lawyers have presented new details, photos, and stories of Tsarnaev — and his victims. Here are 11 things we’ve learned since the sentencing phase of the trial began. (Boston.com)
The Tsarnaev trial in sketches
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A brief history of American executions: “Hanging is perhaps the quintessential American punishment. In the pre-revolutionary era, criminals were also shot, pressed between heavy stones, broken on the wheel, or burned alive. (An estimated 16,000 people have been put to death in this country since the first recorded execution, in 1608.) But the simplicity of the noose triumphed, and its use spread as the republic grew.’’ (The Atlantic)
Never tweet: “An incoming Boston University professor who called ‘white college males’ a ‘problem population’ and was publicly criticized by the university’s president said on Tuesday she regrets making the remarks. … Black sociology professor Saida Grundy, who completed her doctorate at the University of Michigan last year, had declared on her now-private Twitter account that ‘white masculinity is THE problem for America’s colleges.’’’ (Boston.com)
Facebook begins directly publishing publication’s news stories: “Users of iPhones will see glossy cover videos and photos tagged with map coordinates. Most important for impatient smartphone users, [Facebook] says, the so-called instant articles will load up to 10 times faster than they normally would since readers stay on Facebook rather than follow a link to another site.’’ (The New York Times)
Deflategate what-ifs: “What if Brady had just come out and admitted the practice in the hours after Deflategate became a hashtag? What if he reasoned that he preferred the balls on the lower level of the spectrum, and maybe his guys got a little overzealous, yet he took full responsibility? … Deflategate may be a sham, but it’s one the Patriots made possible. The only reason we’re here now is because Brady and the Patriots were too arrogant and focused on escaping the accusations instead of admitting the misdemeanor.’’ (Boston.com)
The Goodbye:
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