A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston said the office is reviewing the opinion and declined further comment. ADJurors found Tsarnaev guilty on all 30 counts, then came back and agreed he should be sentenced to death. Federal death sentences are a rarity and executions are even less common. The federal death penalty statute was reinstated in 1988 and expanded in 1994, and until this year, the government had carried out three executions. The Trump administration has recently pushed back against that trend, scheduling and carrying out federal executions again as part of a push to restart federal capital punishment.

Source: Washington Post July 31, 2020 19:49 UTC