US Justice Department Asks Supreme Court To Reinstate Death Penalty For Tsarnaev
Sumaira FH Published June 15, 2021 | 01:23 PM
The US Department of Justice has asked the Supreme Court to reinstate the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev despite President Joe Biden's opposition to capital punishment
WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 15th June, 2021) The US Department of Justice has asked the Supreme Court to reinstate the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev despite President Joe Biden's opposition to capital punishment.
"The jury carefully considered each of respondent's crimes and determined that capital punishment was warranted for the horrors that he [Tsarnaev] personally inflicted � setting down a shrapnel bomb in a crowd and detonating it, killing a child and a promising young student, and consigning several others to a lifetime of unimaginable suffering," the department's 48-page brief read, adding that "determination by 12 conscientious jurors deserves respect and reinstatement by this Court."
In March, the Supreme Court agreed to review a lower court's decision to toss out the death sentence for Tsarnaev, one of two brothers convicted in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Reacting to the measure, the White House said that Biden had strong concerns over whether the death penalty as currently implemented fits in with American values.
During his election campaign, Biden vowed to try to abolish all Federal death sentences.
Last July, a federal court of appeals reversed three of Tsarnaev's convictions, scrapped his death sentence and ordered a new trial in his case. The Justice Department under the Trump administration filed an appeal against the ruling with the Supreme Court.
The Boston Marathon bombing on April 15, 2013, killed three people and injured hundreds of others. Dzhokhar and his older brother Tamerlan were found guilty of the attack. Tamerlan was killed by the police while on the run on April 19 of the same year, while Dzhokhar was arrested the following day and sentenced to death by lethal injection in May 2015. He will remain in prison for life because he has not challenged the life sentences against him.
Related Topics
Recent Stories
Currency Rate In Pakistan - Dollar, Euro, Pound, Riyal Rates On 25 April 2024
Today Gold Rate in Pakistan 25 April 2024
Mired in crisis, Boeing reports another loss
Session Awarding Ceremony 2024 held at Cadet College Muzaffarabad
Austrian ski great Hirscher to make comeback under Dutch flag
Pakistan, Japan agrees to convene 'Economic Policy Dialogue'
FM Dar conveys deepest sympathy on torrential rains devastation in UAE
Spain PM Sanchez says weighing resignation after wife's graft probe
Tennis: ATP/WTA Madrid Open results - 1st update
Long-lost Klimt portrait auctioned off for 30 mn euros
Osaka seals first win on clay since 2022 in Madrid
Earthquake jolts Karachi
More Stories From World
-
The guardian angels of the source of the Seine
19 minutes ago -
Star Dudamel brings inclusive vision to New York Philharmonic
1 hour ago -
Paris dream of swimming in the Seine finally within reach
2 hours ago -
Portugal's Carnation Revolution, 50 years on
2 hours ago -
Tough times for Argentine factories as consumers penny-pinch
2 hours ago -
Use of alcohol and e-cigarettes among youth 'alarming': WHO
2 hours ago
-
Football: Italian Cup result
2 hours ago -
Bird flu in humans? Experts see little risk
2 hours ago -
Car giants vie for EV crown at Beijing's Auto China show
2 hours ago -
Meta profits soar but costs of AI cause worry
2 hours ago -
Tennis: ATP/WTA Madrid Open results - collated
2 hours ago -
Football: French Ligue 1 results - collated
2 hours ago