US Supreme Court hints it may reinstate Boston Marathon bomber’s death penalty

US Supreme Court hints it may reinstate Boston Marathon bomber’s death penalty
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (AP)

The US Supreme Court sounded ready to reinstate the death penalty for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

In more than 90 minutes of arguments, the court’s six conservative justices seemed likely to embrace the Biden administration’s argument that a federal appeals court mistakenly threw out Tsarnaev’s death sentence for his role in the bombing that killed three people near the finish line of the marathon in 2013.

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