07-31-2020, 07:47 PM
Death Penalty Overturned
Well, the surviving terrorist brother behind the Boston Marathon bombing won a major victory in Appeals court today.
Turns out a couple of the jurors had posted negative comments about Tsarnaev on social media prior to being selected as jurors.
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The federal appeals court overturned the death penalty sentence of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (pictured above), saying the judge who oversaw the case did not adequately screen potential jurors for bias.
The three-judge panel of the 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston upheld much of Tsarnaev's conviction, but ordered a lower-court judge to hold a new trial over what sentence he should receive for the crimes that he was convicted of, which were eligible for the death penalty.
Story: https://www.dw.com/en/boston-marathon-de...a-54398971
Well, the surviving terrorist brother behind the Boston Marathon bombing won a major victory in Appeals court today.
Turns out a couple of the jurors had posted negative comments about Tsarnaev on social media prior to being selected as jurors.
The federal appeals court overturned the death penalty sentence of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (pictured above), saying the judge who oversaw the case did not adequately screen potential jurors for bias.
The three-judge panel of the 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston upheld much of Tsarnaev's conviction, but ordered a lower-court judge to hold a new trial over what sentence he should receive for the crimes that he was convicted of, which were eligible for the death penalty.
Story: https://www.dw.com/en/boston-marathon-de...a-54398971