Boston Bomber Tsarnaev gets the rope: SCOTUS; Squad baldy big mad
"Squad member Ayanna Pressley condemns re-instatement of Boston Marathon bomber's Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death penalty: 'State-sanctioned murder is not justice, no matter how heinous the crime'
US Rep. Ayanna Pressley bashed the Supreme Court for its decision to reinstate the death penalty for Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Friday
Voting along conservative-liberal lines in a 6-3 decision, the court said a federal appeals court was wrong to throw out the death sentence for Tsarnaev
Pressley, who represents part of Boston, called on Biden to halt any executions and for fellow congress members to pass her proposed ban on the death penalty
US Attorney General Merrick Garland had imposed a moratorium on federal executions after Donald Trump over saw 13 in 2021
Both the Biden and Trump administration had pushed the Supreme Court to rule on the matter to avoid a new sentencing that would reopen Boston's wounds
The appeals court had ruled that it was improper to exclude evidence on how deeply influence Tsarnaev was by his older brother, Tamerlan
The defense described Tamerlan, who died in a shootout with police following the attack, as the real mastermind behind the bombing "
March 4, 2022
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