SCOTUS reinstates death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber

The Supreme Court has reinstated the death sentence for the convicted Boston marathon bomber after it was overturned by an appeals court.

In a 6-3 vote, the honorable Justices rejected the Defense’s claims of the bomber being trialed unfairly in 2015. Three people died with 260 injured in the 2013 bombing conducted by Dzhokhar and his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

Dzhokhar was sentenced to death in 2015 while Tamerlan was shot dead by Police during the attack. In 2020, a Federal Appeals Court vacated the death sentence after it questioned the original trial Judge’s failure to question jurors about the amount of TV coverage they had seen related with the case.

The Defense argued that Dzhokhar was lured into the plot by his mastermind brother who was also involved in a 2011 triple homicide which the trial Judge did not allow to be brought up.

The Appeals Court had overturned the bomber’s death sentence but upheld his conviction. The Supreme Court today has reversed the Appeals Court’s decision and has reinstated the death sentence, deeming Dzhokhar who had committed “heinous crimes” has received a fair trial.

All three Justices who are considered to be ‘liberal’ by the mainstream media left their dissenting notes and voted against the restoration.