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Federal Court Overturns Death Sentence For Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Tim Pearce
Federal Court Overturns Death Sentence For Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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A U.S. Court of Appeals overturned the death sentence of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Friday.

Tsarnaev petitioned the First U.S. Court of Appeals in December 2019 to overturn his death sentence, arguing that his trial never should have taken place in Boston. Tsarnaev pleaded guilty to setting a bomb that killed three and injured hundreds of others at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013.

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