Thursday s filing was in response to a Wednesday filing by the appeals court to comply with the Supreme Court s decision last month to reinstate Tsarnaev s death penalty.
The United States Supreme Court has reinstated convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence for his role in the 2013 attack that killed
Liz Norden, whose sons JP and Paul Norden, both lost a leg in the Boston Marathon bombing said she wants to see Dzhokar Tsarnaev executed for his vicious attack that left her boys disfigured
A divided US 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 justices, voting 6-3, said on Friday that Tsarnaev received a fair trial even though a judge limited questioning of prospective jurors about pretrial media coverage.
The court also backed the judge’s decision to bar evidence involving a previous crime that Tsarnaev says showed he was acting under his brother’s influence.
“Dzhokhar Tsarnaev committed heinous crimes,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the court. “The Sixth Amendment nonetheless guaranteed him a fair trial