8 years after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing case, which led to the deaths of 3 spectators and a police officer, the Supreme Court will review a lower court opinion that wiped away the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Eight years after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing case, which led to the deaths of three spectators and a police officer, the Supreme Court on Wednesday will review a lower court opinion that wiped away the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the two brothers involved in the massacre.
Tsarnaev was convicted in 2015 in the deaths of Krystle Campbell, Martin Richard and Lingzi Lu at the marathon and Massachusetts Institute of Technology police Officer Sean Collier several days later, among other charges. Hundreds were injured after Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan set off two shrapnel bombs near the finish line, leaving the sidewalks strewn with BBs, nails, metal scraps and glass fragments. Tamerlan Tsarnaev would later die in a gunfight with police.
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