The court ruled 6-3 that a lower court erred by throwing out the sentence.
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will once again face the death sentence for committing the 2013 bombing, as the Supreme Court reversed an appeals court’s decision to throw out the sentence Friday in a 6-3 ruling.... [+]A district court jury found Tsarnaev guilty in 2015 and sentenced him to death for six of the crimes he was charged with, but an appeals court thenthat ruling in 2020, believing jurors in the trial had been biased and improperly excluded some evidence.
The Supreme Court reversed the appeals court decision, ruling the district court “did not abuse its discretion” in how it conducted the trial and its ruling should not have been thrown out.
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