The US Supreme Court has agreed to consider reinstating the death sentence for Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev after it was dismissed last year.
On Monday, the court Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal from the government to review the decision to take away the death penalty, acting as a review of the 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals ruling last year that the trial was tainted.
Tsarnaev, 27, was sentenced to death in 2015 after he was convicted of 30 charges relating to the bombing in 2013, but the verdict was overturned by the court in July 2020 over concerns with the jury selection process.
The three-judge panel on the court argued that the judge in Tsarnaev’s 2015 trial did not properly vet members of the jury over what they already knew about the highly publicised case.
Following the decision, the US Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to review the sentencing in October 2020, writing in its petition that Tsarnaev’s case is “one of the most important terrorism prosecutions in our nations history.”
