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EXPLAINER: What's the status of the US death penalty?

The first federal capital case tried under President Joe Biden ended with a split among jurors, meaning the life of an Islamic extremist who killed eight people in a New York City will be spared

The Independent UK

Editorial: When death is deserving: Terrorist Sayfullo Saipov’s fate is now before the jury

The same 12 New Yorkers who quickly convicted terrorist Sayfullo Saipov last month of all 28 federal counts against him for murdering eight people on the Hudson River Park bike path on Halloween 2017 will now decide if he should be put to death or locked away forever.

Tribune News Service

EXPLAINER: Biden inaction, mixed signals on death penalty

President Joe Biden campaigned on a pledge to work toward abolishing federal capital punishment

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Boston Marathon bomber makes new challenge to death sentence in US federal appeals court

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted in 2015 of all 30 charges against him

Irish Mirror

Court again weighs tossing Boston marathon bomber’s death sentence

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s attorney has urged a federal appeals court to throw out the 29-year-old’s death sentence because of juror misconduct claims just months after it was revived by the nation’s highest court

The Independent UK

Court again weighs tossing marathon bomber's death sentence

The Independent UK

Joe Biden called for an end to executions. So why is his DoJ seeking it in the case of Sayfullo Saipov?

Biden administration has offered mixed signals on capital punishment

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Tsarnaev prison canteen cash leads to DOJ get-tough memo

A Justice Department memo urges prosecutors to push harder for restitution after complaints swirled that killers and sexual predators were ducking the bills while behind bars.

Boston Herald

Michael Hiltzik: Republicans keep harping on inflation, but don't have any answers for it

Even if you didn't know from your household accounts that inflation has been running hot this year, your local Republican officeholders and candidates would make sure it wasn't a secret.

Los Angeles Times

An unsolved triple murder and the journalist who wouldn’t stop digging: Did one of the Boston bombers kill before?

A new documentary re-investigates the murders of three men in Waltham, Massachusetts on 11 September 2011. Clémence Michallon speaks to journalist Susan Zalkind, who asks: “If police investigated this case thoroughly, would they have prevented the Boston marathon bombing?”

The Independent UK

Boston Marathon bomber again tries to avoid execution

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is again trying to avoid execution, asking the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to consider four constitutional claims not taken up when his death sentence appeal went to the Supreme Court last month

The Independent UK

If Biden Is Serious About Ending the Death Penalty, He Should Start Commuting Sentences

A Supreme Court ruling restoring Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s capital sentence and a congressional logjam makes it clear that only he can keep his campaign promise.

Reason

SCOTUS on Boston bomber: death penalty

Death sentence reimposed despite moratorium on federal executions

Salon

Breaking: Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence for Boston Marathon Bomber

The Supreme Court decided on a 6–3 vote for the death sentence for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

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Supreme Court reinstates Boston Marathon bomber Tsarnaev’s death sentence

A divided U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death sentence for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man who set off one of the bombs that killed three people at the 2013 Boston Marathon.

The Independent UK

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: Who is the Boston marathon bomber facing death penalty?

After a decision by the Supreme Court, the convicted terrorist’s death sentence has been reinstated

The Independent UK

High court reimposes Boston Marathon bomber's death sentence

The Supreme Court has reinstated the death sentence for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

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Supreme Court reinstates death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber

The 6-3 decision reversed a federal appeals court ruling that had voided the death penalty in the case.

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: Supreme Court reinstates death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber

Three people were killed and 260 injured, many seriously, in the 2013 bombing

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