The American Supreme Court - with six votes in favor and three against - confirmed the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the young man of Chechen origin who nine years ago with his brother transformed the arrival of the Boston Marathon into a battlefield. ( HERE THE IMAGES ). In July 2020, a federal court upheld the appeal of the defendants of the accused for a new trial.

It was April 15, 2013 when Dzhokhar, 19 years old at the time, detonated two homemade bombs made up of pressure cookers filled with nails, together with his older brother Tamerlan who was later killed in a fire fight with the police in which he also died. an agent. Three victims of the attack, over 260 injured, 17 lost limbs.

Dzhokhar is currently being held in a maximum security prison in Colorado.

“He committed heinous crimes. And yet the Sixth Amendment guaranteed him a fair trial before an impartial jury. Now he has received one, "reads the Supreme Court ruling." Few deserve the death penalty like the Boston bomber, "Donald Trump tweeted, and the Biden administration renewed the request, calling Tsarnaev a "terrorist" who acted "in favor of jihad".

Whether the Boston bomber will actually be executed is hard to say. Under the current president, the Justice Department has imposed a moratorium on federal executions and Biden himself has repeatedly assured that he wants to abolish them.

(Unioneonline / ss)

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