It is rare for the US Supreme Court to re-evaluate a case, but an exception is made for this case. In 2013, Tsarnaev and his brother committed a bloody attack at the finish of the Boston Marathon. Homemade bombs in a pressure cooker killed three people and injured more than 260 people.
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Tsarnaev was caught a few days later. His brother had already died in a shootout with the police.
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Appeal
In 2015, the Kyrgyz-native American was sentenced to death, but rejected on appeal. The jury would not have been impartial, so the case had to be reconsidered. The Justice Department under President Trump appealed, seeking a judgment from the Supreme Court, the highest judicial body in the US.
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That judgment is now coming, making it possible that the death sentence from 2015 will remain. The other option is for the Supreme Court to go along with the decision made on appeal, thus deciding that the case should be reviewed by a lower court.
Surviving relatives do not have to fear release: whatever the Supreme Court decides, the life sentence will remain in any case. The ruling is expected in June 2022.
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