Capital Punishment: Supreme Court to Decide Fate of the Boston Marathon Bomber Katherine Hamilton 12 Oct 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule Wednesday on whether the death penalty should be reinstated for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the men who carried out the Boston Marathon Bombing.
In August 2020, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit tossed now 28-year-old Tsarnaev’s death sentence issued in district court, saying the trial judge who handled the the case did not properly screen for jury biases. Under the Trump administration, the Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court in October 2020 to hear the case and reinstate his death penalty.
Despite a transition of power to President Joe Biden before the Court could hear the case, the Biden administration decided to press on, challenging his reputation as the first sitting U.S. president to oppose capital punishment.
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