Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

When President Joe Biden commuted thirty-seven of forty federal death sentences to life imprisonment, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's sentence was not commuted. Alongside Robert Bowers and Dylann Roof, he remained one of three prisoners under federal death sentences.

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By six votes to three, the Supreme Court reversed the decision overturning the capital sentences and reinstated the death sentence judgment, while remanding other appeal issues to the First Circuit.

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The First Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the death sentences, finding that jury selection had not sufficiently explored certain effects of prejudicial publicity, and also set aside three firearms convictions.

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The federal jury found Dzhokhar guilty on all thirty counts before it, covering the bombings, conspiracies, deaths, carjacking and associated offences.

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The jury recommended the death penalty on six capital counts, and the judge formally imposed it on 24 June 2015, along with several consecutive life sentences.

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The jury found that Dzhokhar and Tamerlan had conspired to carry out the Boston bombings and use weapons of mass destruction.

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Dzhokhar and Tamerlan placed two bombs near the Boston Marathon finish line. Three people were killed and hundreds injured. The counts resulting in Dzhokhar's death sentences were linked to the device he personally placed.

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Three days after the bombings, the Tsarnaev brothers killed MIT police officer Sean Collier and attempted to take his service weapon.

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The brothers carjacked a vehicle, held its driver against his will and stole 800 dollars from him before he managed to escape.

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In Watertown, the brothers confronted police. During his escape, Dzhokhar drove the carjacked vehicle towards officers and ran over his brother Tamerlan, who died from injuries sustained at the scene.

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After fleeing the confrontation, Dzhokhar was located in a boat stored in the backyard of a Watertown residence and arrested.

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