But last year, another appeal resulted in the death sentence being thrown out over concerns over jury selection. The U. Justice Department has asked the Supreme Court to review the case.
Skip to content. In-depth news coverage of the Greater Boston Area. The wound "doesn't mean he can't communicate, but right now I think he's in a condition where we can't get any information from him at all," Coats told ABC's "This Week. In the final standoff with police, shots were fired from the boat, but investigators have not determined where the gunfire was aimed, Davis said.
In an interview with The Associated Press, the parents of Tamerlan Tsarnaev insisted Sunday that he came to Dagestan and Chechnya last year to visit relatives and had nothing to do with the militants operating in the volatile part of Russia. His father said he slept much of the time. A lawyer for Tamerlan Tsarnaev's wife told the AP Sunday night that federal authorities have asked to speak with her, and that he is discussing with them how to proceed.
Attorney Amato DeLuca said Katherine Russell Tsarnaev did not suspect her husband of anything, and that there was no reason for her to have suspected him. He said she had been working 70 to 80 hours, seven days a week, as a home health care aide. While she was at work, her husband cared for their toddler daughter, he said.
The younger Tsarnaev could be charged any day. The most serious charge available to federal prosecutors would be the use of a weapon of mass destruction to kill people, which carries a possible death sentence. Massachusetts does not have the death penalty. Across the rattled streets of Boston, churches opened their doors to remember the dead and ease the grief of the living.
At the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in South Boston, photographs of the three people killed in the attack and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer slain Thursday were displayed on the altar, each face illuminated by a glowing white pillar candle.
A six-block segment of Boylston Street, where the bombs were detonated, remained closed Sunday. But Mayor Thomas Menino said Sunday that once the scene is released by the FBI, the city will follow a five-step process, including environmental testing and a safety assessment of buildings. The exact timetable was uncertain. Boston's historic Trinity Church could not host services Sunday because it was within the crime scene, but the congregation was invited to worship at the Temple Israel synagogue instead.
The FBI allowed church officials a half-hour Saturday to go inside to gather the priests' robes, the wine and bread for Sunday's service. Trinity's Rev. Samuel T. Lloyd III offered a prayer for those who were slain "and for those who must rebuild their lives without the legs that they ran and walked on last week. God is in the pain the victims are suffering, and the healing that will go on.
By Nate Raymond. Tsarnaev and his older brother set off a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs near the finish line of the world-renowned race, tearing through the packed crowd and causing many people to lose legs.
A three-judge panel of the 1st U. Circuit Judge O. March 4, - Opening statements begin in Tsarnaev's case. Testimony lasts 15 days. Over the course of the trial, prosecutors call 92 witnesses; the defense calls four.
April 8, - After deliberating 11 and a half hours, the jury returns a guilty verdict on all 30 charges. May 15, - Tsarnaev is sentenced to death. June 2, - Kadyrbayev, a friend of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev who pleaded guilty in August , is sentenced to 72 months in prison for obstructing justice.
June 5, - Tazhayakov is sentenced to three and a half years in prison for conspiring to obstruct justice and obstructing justice with intent to impede the investigation. Phillipos is sentenced to three years in prison for making false statements to law enforcement in a terrorism investigation. June 24, - Tsarnaev is formally sentenced to death. Addressing the court, he apologizes and admits he is guilty. December 22, - Stephen Silva, the man who loaned Dzhokhar Tsarnaev the gun that was later used to kill an MIT officer, is sentenced to time served and three years supervised probation.
May 19, - Tazhayakov is released from federal prison. February 26, - Phillipos is released from a residential re-entry program, bringing an end to his federal prison term. August 29, - Kadyrbayev is released from federal prison and taken into ICE custody. He is deported October 23 and arrives in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on October December 27, - Attorneys for Tsarnaev appeal his death sentence, saying that Tsarnaev did not receive a fair trial.
They say it should have been held outside of the city where the crime was committed. July 31, - The appeals court vacates Tsarnaev's death sentence and rules he should be given a new penalty trial.
The court also sets aside three of his 30 convictions but maintains he will remain in federal prison for the rest of his life. December 17, - Attorneys for Tsarnaev file an opposition brief asking the US Supreme Court not to review an earlier appellate decision to vacate his death sentence.
The brief is filed in response to the US Department of Justice motion for a review of the federal appeals court decision that vacated the death penalty in July, citing jury selection issues and a failure to properly screen jurors for bias. March 22, - The Supreme Court agrees to review a lower court opinion that vacated Tsarnaev's death sentence.
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