THERE’S SO MUCH RELIGION in the statement Dzhokhar Tsarnaev made in court today — just before he got the death sentence — but there’s one thing that is glaringly absent: any glimmer of an understanding that within his religion, what he did was wrong. To my ear, he said: I’m empathetic about the death and the suffering, but it was all part of a difficult mission I was called upon to carry out. And that got got me thinking about the way Dylann Roof sat in the prayer study for an hour with 9 Christians who were “so nice” to him that he “almost didn’t go through with it.” But he killed them anyway, because, he said, he had a “mission.” Maybe Tsarnaev truly felt (or now feels) the humanity of his victims, and he’s sorry they had to suffer, but he could still believe that he did the right thing, carrying out a mission. There is nothing in the transcript — I’ve combed it — that excludes my interpretation.