07-31-2020, 08:24 PM
(07-31-2020, 07:54 PM)Maggot Wrote: I saw that. A federal sentence would insure the death penalty and not be tied up with state issues, I think he should be put to death but time will tell. Didn't he run over his own brother? Like a speed bump. That's what they call him around here. "speed bump"
Tsarnaev struck his older brother with a car as he fled the crime (don't know if it was intentional or not). The older brother died the same day.
The official story, IIRC, is that the older brother continued fighting with law enforcement after he was struck and was killed by law enforcement officers thereafter.
It's not a state issue, in any case. Tsarnaev was originally tried in federal court and the sentencing retrial will be held in federal court as well.
The jurors who are selected to be on the re-trial sentencing jury won't be required to sentence him to death; they'll have other options just like the original federal jury did.