Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev want his death sentence overturned, saying the judge should not have allowed the trial in the city.
Dec. 27 (UPI) — Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev want his death sentence overturned, saying the federal judge should not have allowed the trial to be conducted in the city.
On Thursday, the lawyers asked an appellate court to reverse Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s conviction and death penalty sentence for helping carry out the 2013 attack, killing three people and injuring more than 260 others.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, detonated two homemade pressure-cooker bombs with shrapnel on April 15,2013, along the marathon route.
Since his 2015 conviction on 30 charges, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been in solitary confinement at the federal supermax prison in Florence, Colo.
„This case should not have been tried in Boston,“ lawyers wrote in the 1,124-page appeal .
