The Boston Marathon bomber was sentenced to death, but the government can’t execute anyone right now

The death chamber at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana The United States government sought and won a death sentence in the tria...
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A Tale of Two Terrorists: Both Convicted, One Condemned to Die

D. Tsarnaev Under the rules of “guided discretion”—the name given to the version of capital punishment that the Supreme Court’s 1976 decisio...
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Gets Death Penalty in Boston Marathon Bombing

"Darkness cannot put out darkness, only light can do that." MLK BOSTON — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sat stone-faced in a federal court here...
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Jury Deliberations Resume in Tsarnaev Trial Penalty Phase

Jurors in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are deliberating for a second full day Friday on whether he should be senten...
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Sister Helen Prejean Says Tsarnaev Shows Remorse for Boston Bombing

Sister Helen Prejean BOSTON — In a dramatic flourish at the end of the defense case, Sister Helen Prejean, a Roman Catholic nun and prominen...
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The day Michigan became 1st state to ban death penalty

On this date 169 years ago, Michigan lawmakers voted to put down the death penalty, becoming the first state to ban capital punishment -- in...
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Tsarnaev defense: spare him the death penalty, put him in supermax prison

The ADX from above. Credit Jamey Stillings for The New York Times The legal team for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on M...
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Obama Administration Steps Back From Effort to End Federal Death Penalty

President Barack Obama meets with Attorney General Loretta Lynch in the Oval Office, April 27, 2015. (Official White House Photo by Pete Sou...
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