The justices, by a 6-3 vote Friday, agreed with the Biden administration’s arguments that a federal appeals court was wrong to throw out the sentence of death a jury imposed on Tsarnaev for his role in the bombing that killed three people near the finish line of the marathon in 2013.
The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston ruled in 2020 that the trial judge improperly excluded evidence that could have shown Tsarnaev was deeply influenced by his older brother, Tamerlan, and was somehow less responsible for the carnage. The appeals court also faulted the judge for not sufficiently questioning jurors about their exposure to extensive news coverage of the bombing.
Ugh I really want to know if they were actually innocent. I bought into the Boston Marathon bombing narrative so hard ever since I watched it happen live my freshman year of college.
Especially after Hollywood came out with Patriots Day, with Mark Wahlberg. Funny enough, in the film, Tamerlan Tsarnaev claims that the US government did 9/11 on its own citizens. I wonder if that was actually something Tamerlan said.