The U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated the death sentence for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
The justices voted 6-3 on March 4 in favor of reinstating the death sentence, siding with the Biden administration's arguments that a federal appeals court was wrong to throw out the death sentence.
Tsarnaev, an ethnic Chechen born in Kyrgyzstan, and his brother carried out the bombings in 2013, one of the worst attacks in the United States since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Tsarnaev, who was 19 at the time of the bombings, and his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, detonated two homemade pressure-cooker bombs at the marathon's finish line. Three people were killed and hundreds of others were wounded.
A jury found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty of all 30 counts against him and later determined he deserved to be executed.
In July 2020 an appeals court ruled that the trial judge improperly excluded evidence that could have shown Tsarnaev was deeply influenced by his brother.
The appeals court also said the judge in the initial trial "fell short" in screening jurors for potential bias following news coverage of the bombing.
The appeals court ordered a new trial on the sentence, while leaving the conviction intact.
Based on reporting by AP