The Supreme Court appears ready to reinstate the death penalty for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The Biden administration is arguing that a federal appeals court mistakenly threw out the death sentence.
. President Joe Biden also has called for an end to the federal death penalty.
But the trial judge agreed with prosecutors that the evidence linking Tamerlan to the Waltham killings was unreliable, was irrelevant to Dzhokhar’s participation in the marathon attack and would only confuse jurors. “We don’t know what happened. Todashev had all the motive in the world to point the finger at the dead guy,” Kavanaugh said.
In a bizarre twist, while Todashev was being questioned in Florida, he was shot dead after authorities say he attacked the agents. The agent who killed Todashev was cleared of any criminal wrongdoing. Justice Department lawyer Eric Feigin answered that different standards apply and that in asking for a search warrant, federal agents were not saying that every word of what Todashev said was true.
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