The Justice Department will attempt to reinstate the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was detained in the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, Attorney General William Barr stated Thursday.
The attorney general told The Associated Press in an interview that the Justice Department will appeal an appeals court ruling from last month that overturned the death sentence for Tsarnaev.
Barr said the department would take the argument for the death penalty to the Supreme Court for its man detained in the assault that killed three people and wounded more than 260 others. "We'll take it up to the Supreme Court and we'll continue to pursue the death penalty"
Barr's comments come after an appeals court ruled the U.S. district court did not adequately vet jurors for bias about what they had read or seen about the case. The court had convicted Tsarnaev of all 30 fees, and the appeals court upheld all the convictions.
Tsarnaev's legal group confessed he and his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, pioneered the bombings but claimed that their client was radicalized by his own brother. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died after being run over by his brother while he had been hoping to escape along with a gun battle with police.
However, prosecutors have contended that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev also wanted revenge on the U.S. because of its wars in mostly Muslim nations and wrote at the ship that he was captured up to"stop killing our innocent people and we will stop."
After the decision by the appeals court, Patton said,"it's now up to the authorities to find out whether to set the sufferers and Boston via another trialto permit closure to this terrible tragedy by permitting a sentence of life without the chance of release," according to the AP.
President Trump tweeted that the authorities"must again seek the Death Penalty at a do-over of the chapter of the first trial" after the appeals court threw out the death penalty last month.
The Justice Department declared federal executions lately after a 17-year suspension, leading three men to be implemented last month. Others have executions scheduled next week or two in September.
The attorney general told The Associated Press in an interview that the Justice Department will appeal an appeals court ruling from last month that overturned the death sentence for Tsarnaev.
Barr said the department would take the argument for the death penalty to the Supreme Court for its man detained in the assault that killed three people and wounded more than 260 others. "We'll take it up to the Supreme Court and we'll continue to pursue the death penalty"
Barr's comments come after an appeals court ruled the U.S. district court did not adequately vet jurors for bias about what they had read or seen about the case. The court had convicted Tsarnaev of all 30 fees, and the appeals court upheld all the convictions.
Tsarnaev's legal group confessed he and his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, pioneered the bombings but claimed that their client was radicalized by his own brother. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died after being run over by his brother while he had been hoping to escape along with a gun battle with police.
However, prosecutors have contended that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev also wanted revenge on the U.S. because of its wars in mostly Muslim nations and wrote at the ship that he was captured up to"stop killing our innocent people and we will stop."
After the decision by the appeals court, Patton said,"it's now up to the authorities to find out whether to set the sufferers and Boston via another trialto permit closure to this terrible tragedy by permitting a sentence of life without the chance of release," according to the AP.
President Trump tweeted that the authorities"must again seek the Death Penalty at a do-over of the chapter of the first trial" after the appeals court threw out the death penalty last month.
The Justice Department declared federal executions lately after a 17-year suspension, leading three men to be implemented last month. Others have executions scheduled next week or two in September.