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Merrick Garland faces first death penalty test in Boston Marathon bomber case Print this article Attorney General Merrick Garland faces his first test on federal executions as the Supreme Court considers reinstating a death sentence for the Boston Marathon bomber. The court since October has been mulling a Trump-era federal appeal to rehear a death penalty case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who, along with his brother, killed three people and injured more than 200 others at the 2013 Boston Marathon. When then-Attorney General William Barr took the case to the high court, he vowed to do “what...

Print this article When the Trump administration in 2019 began executing death row inmates for the first time in more than a decade, Joe Biden became outspoken against the practice. Previously a strong supporter of capital punishment, the president-elect helped make dozens of crimes punishable by death when he pushed through his now-infamous 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act. Throughout his time in the Senate, he consistently reaffirmed his position: Biden even said there were no “moral grounds” on which he opposed capital punishment during a 2000 Senate Judiciary Commi...