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Love Thine Enemy: Man Offers Burial Plot for Body of Bombing Suspect

Love Thine Enemy: Man Offers Burial Plot for Body of Bombing Suspect

Since his death during a police chase in the days following the Boston Marathon bombings, the family of Tamerlan Tsarnaev has struggled to find a cemetery willing to bury the terrorism suspect. Now, a Yale Divinity School graduate named Paul Douglas Keane has offered to allow the Tsarnaev family to use a burial plot he owns at the Mt. Carmel Cemetery in Connecticut. In a blog post, the 68-year-old wrote, “The only condition is that I do it in memory of my mother who taught Sunday School at the Mt. Carmel Congregational Church for 40 years and taught me to love thine enemy.” So far, there has been no word from the Tsarnaev family …

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