Boston bomber death sentence overturned

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Boston,Massachusetts july 31 2020

A federal appeals court today overturned the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,a three judge panel of the 1st US circuit Court of appeals ordered a new penalty phase,finding the trial judge didn't vet jurors for biases.

The judges said; Make no mistake Dzhokhar will spend all his days in prison,the only question is will be executed or his crimes,the ruling only applies to the sentence,the guilty verdict is not in question.

April 15th 2013,the attack killed 3 and injured 260 more,Tsarnaev's lawyers acknowledged him and his brother set off the bombs.Tamerlan Tsarnaev died in a gun battle with police a few days after the bombing.

Dzhokhar is and will spend his days for the rest of his life at the federal super-max prison in Florance,CO,the toughest in the federal system,all inmates are in cell's 23 hours a day and have no contact with other inmates at any time.

Dzhokhar can still get a death sentence,only a new penalty phase has been ordered and I hope they move it out of Boston so his lawyers can't argue bias again.

The Boston Globe

Politico

If they just had had the common sense not to have held the trial in Boston,then this never would have happened.

I hope they hold the next penalty phase in Albany,so Dzhokhar's lawyers have nothing to appeal.

Thank you Aspartofme for having threads merged.

The Governor and Mayor have weighed in.
Democratic Mayor Marty Walsh has said he respects the justice system and is ok with life without parole.

Governor Charlie Baker (republican) hopes for maximum justice and hopes for a second death sentence.

Remarks can be found in Boston Globe

This is important because the federal death penalty is finally back in practice. Daniel Lewis Lee, Wesley Ira Purkey, and Dustin Lee Honken all died mid-July and Lezmond Mitchell and Keith Nelson will die late August.

So the Boston Globe says the appeals judges saw no problem with the trial in Boston,it was improper vetting of the jurors.

I don't get the law sometimes

I’m against the death penalty in large because it makes the whole situation higher stakes in which the prosecutors are even more motivated to “win.”

Clarence Brandley was convicted of a 1980 murder in Texas. About ten years later, he was released, basically due to actual innocence. And yes, there was prosecutorial misconduct.

Michael Morton was convicted of the murder of his wife in 1986. He served twenty-five years in prison before being released. Again, prosecutorial misconduct. And because the police fixated and focused on the husband who was the wrong guy, this also meant the right guy went free. And this unrelated criminal went to kill again. A real tragedy all the way around.

Cameron Todd Willingham was convicted of the deaths of his three young daughters in a fire in 1991. An arson “expert” testified that the floor under the couch and elsewhere showed clear evidence of accelerants. This “science” of arson investigation was really more lore and legend. But this so-called expert was very convincing to the jury, which is why the prosecutors liked him.

Willingham was executed on Feb. 17, 2004, which means my state of Texas probably executed an innocent man.

Tsarnaev should spend every waking moment of his life reflecting on his deed, killing innocent people for the sake of some deranged philosophy.

BTW watch his parents in interview and you will know where he and his brother got their brainwashing from, the mother and father are free to walk around and spout fanatic nonsense.