What Tsarnaev deserves Now the real Boston Marathon trial can begin. A federal jury’s decision to convict Dzhokhar Tsarnaev of 30 charges related to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings was the most anticlimactic of anticlimaxes. The 21-year-old’s lawyers admitted from the beginning that their client had participated in the horrific terrorist attack, which both scarred and strengthened this […]
Boston Marathon trial: Tsarnaev faces execution The death penalty was taken off the books for state cases in Massachusetts decades ago. But this is a federal case – with a personal angle. Most of those individuals who responded to a Boston Globe poll in July said they supported the decision to pursue the death penalty. “Some people say, ‘Well, he deserves […]