Tamerlan Tsarnaev killed three people in 2011, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is not as culpable in the Boston Marathon jihad massacre. In reality, Dzhokhar never showed any sign of being anything but a convinced and willing participant, and was defiant after the massacre, as the jail photo of him giving the finger to the camera demonstrates. This solicitude for the perpetrators and callous disregard for the victims is one of the prevailing maladies of our age.
“US asks Supreme Court to hear Boston Marathon bomber’s case,” by Alanna Durkin Richer, AP, October 6, 2020 (thanks to Henry):
BOSTON (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department asked the nation’s highest court Tuesday to review the case of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, whose death sentence was thrown out over concerns with the jury selection process.
In a petition, Justice Department lawyers called Tsarnaev’s case “one of the most important terrorism prosecutions in our nation’s history” and said the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was wrong when it ruled Tsarnaev deserves a new trial to decide whether he should be executed.
“Given the profound stakes…the First Circuit should not have the last word,” Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall and other lawyers told the U.S. Supreme Court. The high court should “put this landmark case back on track toward its just conclusion,” they wrote.
Prosecutors are asking the court to hear and decide the case this term, which ends in June, “to avoid further delay in this long-running and critically important prosecution.” The Supreme Court hears only a fraction of the cases it’s asked to review every year.
If the justices refuse to hear the case, prosecutors could go forward with another trial or drop their pursuit for capital punishment and agree to life in prison.
Attorney General William Barr told The Associated Press in August that they planned to take the case to the high court and “continue to pursue the death penalty.”
“We will do whatever’s necessary,” Barr said….