“Jochar Zarnayev will remain in prison for the rest of his life, the only question left is whether the government will end his life with his execution,” wrote the three US federal judges in their verdict, which they used to sentence the death sentence to ” Boston bombers “. At the same time, they ordered a lower authority to decide on the sentence again.
Protests against the death penalty before the sentencing of Zarnayev (archive)
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In the first trial, it was not ensured that the jury was actually unbiased about Zarnayev, the appeals court ruled. One of the jury is said to have called Zarnajew on Twitter as “scum”. Now the charges for which he was sentenced to death must be examined again in a new trial. Even if the suspension of the death sentence was upheld, Zarnayev would at least be sentenced to life imprisonment, the appeals court said.
The 27-year-old Zarnajew was convicted in May 2015. The jury found the young man guilty of detonating two self-made explosive devices with his brother Tamerlan, who was later killed, in the finish area of the Boston Marathon in April 2013.
Jochar and Tamerlan Zarnajew at the Boston Marathon
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Three people were killed in the worst terrorist attack in the United States since September 11, 2001. Several of the 264 injured lost arms or legs. Zarnajew had confessed to the crime and is now in a maximum security prison in the US state of Colorado.
rb / mak (afp, ap, dpa, rtr)
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