Local runner reacts to Tsarnaev verdict

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More than two thousand Canadians were registered to run in the 2013 Boston Marathon, but didn’t get to cross the finish line. Vicki Brown was one of a group of 20 runners from the Burlington area, who were racing on the day of the bombing.

She was a little more than a kilometre from the finish line when the bombs went off, and policemen began to wade into the road to stop the race. She says her immediate thought at the time, was for the runners in her club. She knew that some of them were ahead of her, and she was deeply concerned for their safety. As it happened all of them were safe. She not only returned to run the Boston Marathon last year, but will run again, in just a few weeks time.

So, how does she feel about the verdict in the trial? and the possibility that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev may face the death penalty? “I can’t say that I’m a proponent of the death penalty…but on the other hand, it bothers me that the taxpayers have to pay to keep somebody in prison. Either way, as long as he pays for his crimes…”