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.
