Supreme Court will be discussing the death penalty with the Boston marathon bomber from 2013. The argument from the lawyers of the convict is that the judge in the original trial did not do a good job at getting out the jurors with potential bias. Which makes sense with how publicized this case was and the state of the country at the time. The new trial will focus on the question of whether or not he should be executed for the deaths of three people and the wounds of hundreds of people that happened that day. This will also be a problem for the Biden administration, Biden is opposed to capital punishment but his lawyers still kept the petition to the Supreme Court where justices were debating whether or not to take the case. The case was also presented to President Trump's administration where the Department of Justice wanted to have the death penalty. The original argument that his lawyers used is that his brother was the one with the plan and orchestrated the whole thing, he died during a gunfight with police. The other brother is serving a life term in Colorado and the only thing this trial will do is define whether or not to use the death penalty against him.
Barnes, R. (2021, March 22). Supreme court will consider restoring the Boston MARATHON bomber's death sentence. Retrieved March 22, 2021, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-boston-marathon-bomber/2021/03/22/cc42f3be-8b11-11eb-a730-1b4ed9656258_story.html
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