The US Chinese network recently reported a verdict on the death sentence of Joka Charnaev, the perpetrator of the 2013 Boston bombings, which was revoked by the US Federal Appeals Court. Earlier, the U.S. Federal Court in Boston sentenced Tsarnayev to death on five counts.
The ruling panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit said Tsarnayev was overturned on three counts, though he still had as many as 30 counts convicted, meaning he would spend the rest of his life in prison. According to the adjudication team, the judge in charge of this judgment made a mistake in his work and did not screen jurors according to the regulations, so there was a subjective bias in the judgment. A judge in the adjudication team said that the adjudication team has determined that Tsarnayev is guilty of other crimes and that he will be sentenced to life imprisonment, although the trial is not over and will be followed by a trial of whether Tsarnayev should be executed.
Tsarnaev's lawyers insisted that his clients did not get a fair trial because the jury was all people affected by the terrorist attacks that year, and their subjective assumptions seriously affected the fairness of the trial. The lawyer said Tamirnan, Thamelnaev's brother, was the mastermind of the bombing. However, the families of the victims of the explosion expressed strong protest against the abolition of the death penalty, and they also said that it was not acceptable that seven years had passed since the case had occurred and the killer had not been punished.
During the 2013 Boston Marathon, two pressure cooker bombs were detonated. According to surveillance, Qarnaev, then 19, and his brother appeared near the end of the marathon carrying a backpack containing a bomb. The bombing killed 3 people and injured more than 260 others. In the ensuing escape, the brothers killed another policeman. In the final firefight with the police, the older brother Tamilnan was killed and the younger brother Joka was captured by the police.
Author: Mu Sheng