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Boston bomber: Barrett asks DOJ lawyer why Biden admin wants to reinstate death sentence amid execution pause

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Justice Amy Coney Barrett pressed the Biden administration’s lawyer on why it is trying to reinstate the death sentence for Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev …
Justice Amy Coney Barrett pressed the Biden administration’s lawyer on why it is trying to reinstate the death sentence for Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev even though the attorney general ordered a moratorium on federal executions earlier this year. « What’s the government’s end game here? » Barrett asked Justice Department lawyer Eric Feigin during a Supreme Court oral argument Wednesday. Barrett said that if the Biden administration gets its way, Tsarnaev would be « relegated to living under threat of a death sentence that the government doesn’t plan to carry out. » Feigin responded that circumstances could shift because a reinstated death penalty would not be the end of litigation or activity on Tsarnaev’s case.

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