Justice Department to seek death penalty for Boston bomber: report
By Justine Coleman - 08/20/20 09:03 PM EDT
The Justice Department will seek to reinstate the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was convicted in the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, Attorney General William Barr said Thursday.
The attorney general told The Associated Press in an interview that the Justice Department will appeal an appeals court ruling from last month that overturned the death sentence for Tsarnaev.
Barr said the department would take the argument for the death penalty to the Supreme Court for the man convicted in the attack that killed three people and injured more than 260 others.
“We will do whatever’s necessary,†Barr said, according to the AP. “We will take it up to the Supreme Court and we will continue to pursue the death penalty.â€
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