IT’S PROBABLY THE highest profile capital punishment case in the country. And while it was an administration in Washington led by a Democratic president opposed to the death penalty that successfully sought reinstatement of the death penalty against Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, support for capital punishment in the country is declining, with some hard-core […]
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Sparing us further talk of Tsarnaev
For the first time today, jurors will begin to hear a defense of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. It will not be a legal defense that tries to plant doubt about his guilt — that phase of the trial is over and its outcome was conceded in the jarring opening statement last month of defense attorney Judy Clarke: “It […]