US Supreme Court reinstates death sentence for man who bombed Boston Marathon

US Supreme Court reinstates death sentence for man who bombed Boston Marathon
The US Supreme Court building (Patrick Semansky/AP)

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

The justices, by a 6-3 vote, agreed with the Biden administration’s arguments that a federal appeals court was wrong to throw out the sentence of death a jury imposed on Tsarnaev for his role in the bombing that killed three people near the finish line of the marathon in 2013.

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