An appeals court lifted the death sentence against the Boston assassin on Friday – US President Trump does not want to accept that. The public prosecutor’s office must demand this again.
US President Donald Trump has challenged an appeal court’s decision to overturn the Boston Marathon bomber’s death sentence. Jochar Zarnajew must be sentenced to death again, Trump said on Twitter.
“Hardly anyone deserves the death penalty more than the Boston bomber.” When the trial was reissued, the prosecution would have to demand the death penalty again, Trump wrote. “Our country cannot allow the decision of the Court of Appeal to stand.”
Judgment to be reviewed
A federal appeals court overturned the death sentence against Zarnajew on Friday. It referred the case back to a lower court to rule on a new sentence. However, the appeals court only overturned that part of the judgment that deals with the charges of the death penalty.
Even if the death sentence was upheld after re-examination, Zarnayev would at least be sentenced to life imprisonment, the appeals court said.
Sentenced to death in 2015
The 27-year-old Zarnajew was sentenced to death in mid-May 2015. The jury found him guilty of detonating two self-made explosive devices together with his later brother Tamerlan in the finish area of the Boston Marathon in April 2013. Three people were killed and 264 injured in the worst terrorist attack in the United States since September 11, 2001.
/data/photo/2016/11/11/1053103ilustrasi-bursa-anjlok780x390.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1 "Indonesia is not yet in a recession despite economic growth of 5.32 percent")