'Dzhokhar will remain confined to prison for the rest of his life, with the only question remaining being whether the government will end his life by executing him.'
A federal appeals court in Massachusetts Friday vacated the death sentence of the surviving Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, ruling that a judge did not fully vet potential jury bias in a case that consumed the city.
But although a win for Tsarnaev, the three-judge appeals court made clear the new hearing will only decide sentencing. "Radical jihadists bent on killing Americans, the duo caused battlefield-like carnage," Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson wrote in the ruling on behalf of the appeals court. "By not having the jurors identify what it was they already thought they knew about the case, the judge made it too difficult for himself and the parties to determine both the nature of any taint and the possible remedies for the taint," the appeal court's opinion said. "This was an error of law and so an abuse of discretion."
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