Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was envious of his brother for reaching “paradise” earlier after clashing with the police, killed three people with him and injured 260 others.
In March 2010, hiding in a boat while the police searched for him throughout Boston, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote in pencil on the walls stained with his own blood the envy his brother Tamerlan gave him, “for having received from Allah the reward of paradise » before him. It had been he himself who finished him off by running over him with the car in which he was fleeing, after shooting at the police.
The only surviving author of the Boston Marathon attacks could meet his brother in paradise sooner than previously thought, because this Friday the United States Supreme Court reimposed the death sentence that an appeals court had overturned.
The attacks by the Chechen brothers cost the lives of three people and injured another 260, of whom 17 lost limbs. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was at the time a student at Cambridge University and had not even turned 18.
His lawyer has tried to blame his older brother, who had participated in other bloody crimes with drug trafficking, but the judge who presided over the trial did not allow the evidence about the influence he exerted on him to be exposed. Jurors were also not sufficiently questioned about what they knew about the case through the press before the trial began, which is why the Court of Appeals decided to exchange the death sentence for life imprisonment.
13 executions
Still, President Joe Biden has promised to abolish federal executions, which were on a moratorium until Donald Trump came to power. During his tenure, 13 inmates were executed, after a 17-year break in imposing capital punishment at the national level.
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