When will Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev face the death penalty?

ON APRIL 15, 2013, a domestic terrorist attack occurred during the annual Boston Marathon, killing three people.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has since been identified as the Boston Marathon bomber and later sentenced to death.

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When will Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev face the death penalty?

Two years after Tsarnaev and his late brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev planted pressure cooker bombs at the Boston Marathon, he was found guilty on all 30 charges against him and sentenced to death.

“I would now like to apologize to the victims and survivors,” Tsarnaev said during the sentencing hearing, via The Guardian.

“I want to ask forgiveness from Allah and his creation.”

He added: “I’m sorry for the lives I’ve taken, for the harm I’ve caused you, for the damage I’ve caused – irreparable damage.

“If there is any doubt, I am guilty along with my brother in this attack.”

Since then, Tsarnaev and his lawyers have attempted to overturn the death sentence, and they ultimately succeeded in 2020 after the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the sentence, but the Supreme Court later reinstated it by a 6-3 vote.

“Dzhokhar Tsarnaev committed heinous crimes. The Sixth Amendment nevertheless guaranteed him a fair trial before an impartial jury. He received one,” Judge Clarence Thomas wrote in the ruling via ABC News.

Then, in January 2023, his lawyers appealed again, this time challenging the counts left out by the Supreme Court.

They argued that the judge presiding over the case had wrongly denied his disavowal of two jurors who they believed lied during the jury selection process.

“This case was tried in Boston with the promise that despite the extraordinary impact of the Marathon bombing on this community,” thorough questioning of potential jurors would remove any unqualified, Tsarnaev’s attorney, Daniel Habib, said before the 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals Judges NBC News. “That promise was not kept.”

Habib’s examples in these allegations included a juror who retweeted a post in which he called Tsarnaev a “piece of junk” and one whose Facebook friends commented on the trial and told him to “play the part” so that he Tsarnaev “could send to prison where he will be”. taken by.”

As of this writing, the courts have yet to rule on Tsarnaev’s latest appeal, but he will not be executed anytime soon as Attorney General Merrick Garland has imposed a moratorium on federal executions in 2021.

The freeze was enacted after the Trump administration carried out 13 executions in six months and is intended to give the Justice Department time to review its policies and procedures, according to the Associated Press.

“The Department of Justice must ensure that everyone in the federal criminal justice system is not only afforded the rights guaranteed by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, but is also treated fairly and humanely,” Garland said. “This obligation has particular force in capital cases.”

It is currently unclear when federal executions will resume.

What charges have been brought against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev?

Among the charges Tsarnaev was found guilty of, according to the WBUR, are:

1. Guilty: Conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death
2. Guilty: Use of a weapon of mass destruction (Pressure Cooker Bomb #1) resulting in death; and aid
3. Guilty: Possession and use of a firearm (Pressure Cooker Bomb #1) during and in connection with a violent crime resulting in death; and aid
4. Guilty: Use of a weapon of mass destruction (Pressure Cooker Bomb #2) resulting in death; and aid
5. Guilty: Possession and use of a firearm (Pressure Cooker Bomb #2) during and in connection with a violent crime resulting in death; and aid
6. Guilty: Conspiracy to bomb a public place, resulting in deaths
7. Guilty: Bombing of a public place (Pressure Cooker Bomb #1), resulting in death; aid
8. Guilty: Possession and use of a firearm (Pressure Cooker Bomb #1) during and in connection with a violent crime resulting in death; aid
9. Guilty: Bombing of a public place (Pressure Cooker Bomb #2), resulting in death; aid
10. Guilty: Possession and use of a firearm (Pressure Cooker Bomb #2) during and in connection with a violent crime resulting in death; aid
11. Guilty: Conspiracy to maliciously destroy property resulting in death
12. Guilty: Malicious destruction of property with explosives (Pressure Cooker Bomb #1) resulting in death; aid
13. Guilty: Possession and use of a firearm (Pressure Cooker Bomb #1) during and in connection with a violent crime resulting in death; aid
14. Guilty: Malicious destruction of property with explosives (Pressure Cooker Bomb #2) resulting in death; aid
15. Guilty: Possession and use of a firearm (Pressure Cooker Bomb #2) during and in connection with a violent crime resulting in death; aid
16. Guilty: Possession and use of a firearm (Ruger P95 9mm semi-automatic handgun) during and in connection with a violent crime resulting in death; aid
17. Guilty: Possession and use of a firearm (Ruger P95 9mm semi-automatic handgun) during and in connection with a violent crime resulting in death; aid
18. Guilty: Possession and use of a firearm (Ruger P95 9mm semi-automatic handgun) during and in connection with a violent crime resulting in death; aid
19. Guilty: carjacking, resulting in serious bodily harm; aid
20. Guilty: Possession and use of a firearm (Ruger P95 9mm semi-automatic handgun) during and in connection with a violent crime; aid
21. Guilty: disruption to trade through threats and violence; aid
22. Guilty: Possession and use of a firearm (Ruger P95 9mm semi-automatic handgun) during and in connection with a violent crime; aid
23. Guilty: Use of a weapon of mass destruction (Pressure Cooker Bomb #3 on or about April 19, 2013 near Laurel Street and Dexter Avenue in Watertown); aid
24. Guilty: Possession and use of a firearm (a Ruger P95 9mm semi-automatic pistol and a No. 3 pressure cooker bomb) during and in connection with a violent crime; aid
25. Guilty: Use of a weapon of mass destruction (No. 1 pipe bomb on or about April 19, 2013 near Laurel Street and Dexter Avenue in Watertown); aid
26. Guilty: Possession and use of a firearm (a Ruger P95 9mm semi-automatic pistol and a No. 1 pipe bomb) during and in connection with a violent crime; aid
27. Guilty: Use of a weapon of mass destruction (No. 2 pipe bomb on or about April 19, 2013 near Laurel Street and Dexter Avenue in Watertown); aid
28. Guilty: Possession and use of a firearm (a Ruger P95 9mm semi-automatic pistol and a No. 2 pipe bomb) during and in connection with a violent crime; aid
29. Guilty: Use of a weapon of mass destruction (No. 3 pipe bomb on or about April 19, 2013 near Laurel Street and Dexter Avenue in Watertown); aid
30. Guilty: Possession and use of a firearm (a Ruger P95 9mm semi-automatic pistol and a No. 3 pipe bomb) during and in connection with a violent crime; aid

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Who Are the Victims of the Boston Marathon?

The Boston Marathon bombing injured 280 people and killed three.

These victims included:

• Krystle Campbell, 29
• Martin Richard, 8
• Lu Lingzi, 23

26-year-old MIT campus police officer Sean Collier was also fatally shot by Tsarnaev and his older brother in their squad car.