Death Penalty for Boston Marathon Bomber Reinstated

The death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been reinstated.

In a 6-3 vote, the ⚖️Supreme Court reversed a ruling that voided the death penalty.

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote, “The Sixth Amendment nonetheless guaranteed him a fair trial before an impartial jury. He received one.”

In July, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit sided with Tsarnaev’s lawyers who argued the judge that oversaw his trial in 2015 did not thoroughly question potential jurors for bias, as The Washington Post noted.

Justice Stephen Breyer wrote, “I have written elsewhere about the problems inherent in a system that allows for the imposition of the death penalty … This case provides just one more example of some of those problems.”

After the ⚖️Supreme Court agreed to review a death penalty case involving Tsarnaev, White House Press Secretary Jen Psakisaid