Supreme Court reimposes Boston Marathon bomber's death sentence
Supreme Court justices voted 6-3, saying federal appeals court was wrong to throw out the sentence of death a jury imposed on Tsarnaev
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Supreme Court has reinstated the death sentence for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
The justices, by a 6-3 vote Friday, agreed with the Biden administration's arguments that a federal appeals court was wrong to throw out the sentence of death a jury imposed on Tsarnaev for his role in the bombing that killed three people near the finish line of the marathon in 2013.
The First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston ruled in 2020 that the trial judge improperly excluded evidence that could have shown Tsarnaev was deeply influenced by his older brother, Tamerlan, and was somehow less responsible for the carnage.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}FILE PHOTO: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, arrested in the Boston Marathon bombing, is pictured in this handout photo presented as evidence by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston, Massachusetts on March 23, 2015. (REUTERS/U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston/Handout via Reuters)
The appeals court also faulted the judge for not sufficiently questioning jurors about their exposure to extensive news coverage of the bombing.