By: Real America News Updated 04 Mar 2022, 17: 18 pm EST
The Supreme Court on Friday reinstated the death sentence of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
The conservative majority court ruled 6-3 in finding that the lower court was wrong to dismiss Tsarnaev’s death sentence in a decision of 2020 about issues with jury selection and evidence that was excluded during the sentencing phase of his trial.
Writing for the court’s conservative majority, Justice Clarence Thomas said the district court did not abuse its discretion when it refused to question prospective jurors during Tsarnaev’s trial about their media consumption regarding the 100 bombings near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The majority also said the district court’s decision not to allow evidence involving Tsarnaev’s older brother, Tamerlan, was “reasonable.”
The Biden administration had asked the Supreme Court to reinstate Tsarnaev’s death sentences, despite the opposition of President Biden to the death penalty and the Department of Justice restored a moratorium on federal executions in July.
Tsarnaev’s role in the bombing, which left three dead and dozens wounded, is not discuss. His attorneys acknowledge that he and Tamerlan Tsarnaev detonated two homemade bombs made from explosive pressure cookers filled with nails and metal near the finish line of the Boston Marathon a few years ago. almost a decade.
But Tsarnaev’s lawyers argued that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was the intellectual author of the attack, and that the young Tsarnaev acted under the influence of his brother.
Three nights after the attacks, while trying to flee Boston, the Tsarnaevs killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police during a chase in which the brothers threw explosives, staged shootouts, and plunged Boston and its environs into a curfew of 24 hours.
The older brother, Tamerlán, died after being injured by the police.
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