Merrick Garland faces first death penalty test in Boston Marathon bomber case
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...
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