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The Supreme Court said it would review an appeals court’s decision that overturned the death sentence of one of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombers.

Monday, March 22, 2021 10:23 AM EST

Last year, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, in Boston, upheld Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s convictions on 27 counts. But the appeals court ruled that his death sentence should be overturned because the trial judge had not questioned jurors closely enough about their exposure to pretrial publicity and had excluded evidence concerning Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar’s older brother and accomplice.

The bombings, near the finish line of the marathon, killed three people and injured 260, many of them grievously. Seventeen people lost limbs. A law enforcement officer was killed as the brothers fled a few days later. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died in a shootout with the police.
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Me: Funny. They don’t mind maiming and killing others, but they don’t want to die either.