Supreme Court reimposes death sentence on Boston Marathon bomber

High-court's 6-3 decision rejected the defense's argument that the judge at Tsarnaev's 2015 trial improperly restricted the questioning of prospective jurors

Published: March 4, 2022 10:24am

Updated: March 4, 2022 11:05am

The Supreme Court on Friday reimposed the death sentence for so-called Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, reversing a federal appeals court ruling voiding the sentence.

The high-court's 6-3 decision rejected the defense's argument that the judge at Tsarnaev's 2015 trial improperly restricted the questioning of prospective jurors and was wrong to exclude evidence of a separate crime two years before the bombing, according to NBC News

Tsarnaev was convicted of joining his older brother, Tamerlan, in planting and detonating two pressure cooker bombs near the marathon finish line in 2013 that killed three people and injured hundreds of others. 

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