Is this Rolling Stone cover inappropriate?

What the what? Somebody should get fired for this horrible, dreadful & disgusting cover.

Rolling Stone Magazine is catching a lot of hear for their cover this week which features Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

According to MyFoxBoston.com:

The image, which accompanies a story titled "Jahar's World," shows the accused murderer with his long, curly hair tousled and the hint of a goatee, reminiscent of the magazine's iconic shots of rock and roll royalty like The Doors' Jim Morrison. The cover could send a dangerous message to Tsarnaev's warped supporters, said one critic. "If they want to become famous, kill somebody," says  Northeastern University criminologist Jack Levin 

This is appalling. Who on earth thought this was a good idea. But I want to hear your thoughts, is this cover inappropriate?