U.S. Supreme Court justices indicated they are likely to reinstate the death sentence for <-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000017c-7ac7-d3ae-a3fd-7ef79c060000","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Dzhokhar Tsarnaev-bsp-person>, the man convicted of setting off one of the bombs that killed three people at the 2013 Boston Marathon.
Hearing arguments in Washington Wednesday, the court’s conservatives voiced skepticism about a federal appeals court decision that threw out Tsarnaev’s death sentence.
The appeals court ruled that a federal trial judge improperly limited questioning of prospective jurors about pretrial media coverage they consumed. The panel also said the judge should have allowed evidence involving a previous crime that Tsarnaev says showed he was acting ...
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