Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment mere weeks before President-elect Donald Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment, takes office. The move spares the lives of people convicted in killings, including the slayings of police and military officers, people on federal land...

Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev want a new judge to oversee the investigation into juror bias. They say the judge that oversaw Tsarnaev’s 2015 death penalty trial should excuse himself after making public comments about the case. According to The Boston Globe, Tsarnaev’s legal team says that U.S. District Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. “invited trouble” by...

Attorneys for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are seeking to remove the judge overseeing the protracted legal battle over Tsarnaev’s death sentence. Tsarnaev’s lawyers said during a hearing in federal court in Boston on Wednesday that U.S. District Court Judge George O’Toole should be recused from the case, pointing to what they said were comments O’Toole made about the...

Possible juror bias is at the center of a federal appeals court ruling that remands Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s case back to U.S. District Court for further examination. The First Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with Tsarnaev’s attorneys in a 2-1 decision that two of the 12 deliberating jurors involved in sentencing Tsarnaev to death may have lied...

Appeals court orders judge to probe Boston marathon bomber’s claims of juror bias, death sentence remains intact.