A federal appeals court has thrown out the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, saying the judge who presided over the case failed to adequately vet the trial's jurors for bias.
Maddie Meyer/Getty ImagesFlowers were placed at the memorial to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings on April 20.A death penalty sentence against confessed Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was thrown out Friday by a federal appeals court in Boston.
"A core promise of our criminal-justice system is that even the very worst among us deserves to be fairly tried and lawfully punished," wrote Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson in the 224-pageLawyers for Tsarnaev have acknowledged that he and his older brother Tamerlan, who was killed during the manhunt that followed the, detonated two homemade pressure cooker bombs that killed three people and wounded at least 260 others near the finish line of the annual foot race.
"Dzhokhar will remain confined to prison for the rest of his life," wrote Thompson,"with the only question remaining being whether the government will end his life by executing him." "Tsarnaev presented a colorable claim that Juror 286 knowingly withheld from the court the fact that she posted twenty-two online comments mourning the death of [8-year-old bystander] Martin Richard," Torruella wrote of the woman who would become the jury's foreperson,"praising law enforcement officers , expressing 'BOSTON STRONG' civic pride, and calling Tsarnaev a 'piece of garbage.
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