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The Biden administration will try to persuade the Supreme Court this week to reinstate the death penalty for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev...
The Biden administration will try to persuade the Supreme Court this week to reinstate the death penalty for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev...
Indictments. nine counts of murder. three counts of attempted murder, a weapons charge. his defense attorney waived the arraignment which means that the court didn't hear the -- didn't hear the charges but he acknowledged that he has received the charges and his client's received the charges and will waive bail. and one of the most animated moments in the hearing, the judge said that the defense attorney can say that he's waiving bail but the judge none the less is denying bail. >> and, pete williams can you give us the big picture here about the legal situation. some people might be surprised...
Where this was tried. you know the question of whether he could get a fair trial in boston was -- was not only fought out at the district court but that was appealed before trial, which is very unusual and even more unusual, it was a vote of 2-1 so a very close vote in the appeals court to keep the trial in boston. we've been talking about the mcveigh trial, which has, as we discussed many parallels. here's a very important difference between the oklahoma city bombing case and the tsarnaev trial. in the oklahoma city case there was a change of venue. the defense and prosecution agreed to move ...
This horrible world that we're in now. we're not fighting an identifiable enemy except sort of the vague terrorist groups, they're trying to kill us and can we target their leaders and kill one of their leaders if it is an american citizen. we're looking at the tsarnaev trial if boston. look at the amount of time we spend agonizing whether he gets put to death or not for his terrorist act and yet, abroad, if the president says drone strike on an american citizen, can the president order his death, this is a very, very hard question and it's a new question for the american system of justice. >>...