Court overturns Boston Marathon bomber's death sentence
Source: AP
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
A federal appeals court Friday threw out Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs death sentence in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, saying the judge who oversaw the case did not adequately screen jurors for potential biases.
A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a new penalty-phase trial on whether the 27-year-old Tsarnaev should be executed for the attack that killed three people and wounded more than 260 others.
But make no mistake: Dzhokhar will spend his remaining days locked up in prison, with the only matter remaining being whether he will die by execution, the judges said, more than six month after arguments were heard in the case.
Tsarnaevs lawyers acknowledged at the beginning of his trial that he and his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, set off the two bombs at the marathon finish line. But they argued that Dzhokar Tsarnaev is less culpable than his brother, who they said was the mastermind behind the attack.
FILE - This file photo released April 19, 2013, by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted and sentenced to death for carrying out the April 15, 2013, Boston Marathon bombing attack that killed three people and injured more than 260. On Friday, July 31, 2020, a federal appeals court overturned the Boston Marathon bomber's death sentence. (FBI via AP, File)
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George II
(67,782 posts)totodeinhere
(13,056 posts)Rebl2
(13,462 posts)Dial H For Hero
(2,971 posts)Blues Heron
(5,926 posts)totodeinhere
(13,056 posts)obamanut2012
(26,046 posts)The State just winks and nudges that it's okay for them to do it.
Sapient Donkey
(1,568 posts)The semantics are irrelevant when it comes to the end result. That end result is what people are opposed to.
LisaL
(44,972 posts)Life in prison is no picnic either.
mitch96
(13,870 posts)the other inmates... Alone for life...
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WestMichRad
(1,317 posts)It puzzles me why so many think execution is the harshest penalty. Life without parole and alone would be consistently miserable.
obamanut2012
(26,046 posts)cstanleytech
(26,230 posts)cruel and unusual area.
That aside at the very least knowing you will forever be denied your freedom is still a pretty bitter pill to swallow I imagine.
mcar
(42,278 posts)no hope of parole.