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Three people, including an 8-year-old child, were killed and hundreds were wounded when two pressure-cooker bombs filled with metal shrapnel detonated near the crowded marathon finish line.

Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, both described as jihadists, fled the scene, kicking off a four-day manhunt during which Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Officer Sean Collier was shot dead. Tamerlan died in a gunfight with police in Watertown, Massachusetts.

An injured Dhzokhar, who ran over his brother as he drove away in a stolen Mercedes, was found hours later hiding in a boat parked in a nearby backyard. A federal jury in Massachusetts convicted Tsarnaev, who was 19 at the time of the attack, on 30 counts and recommended the death penalty for six of them, including using weapons of mass destruction that killed people.

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in July affirmed most of Tsarnaev's convictions but erased his capital sentences. It found that the lower court wrongly denied requests from Tsarnaev's attorneys to have prospective jurors asked about their media exposure to the facts of the case during the jury-selection process. The appeals court also ruled that the district court erred by excluding evidence related to a triple murder in Waltham, Massachusetts, on the year anniversary of the Sept.

Tamerlan had been implicated in those attacks by his friend Ibragim Todashev. He claimed to authorities that Tamerlan recruited him to rob three men, who were bound with duct tape before Tamerlan slit their throats. The Boston-based 1st U. Circuit Court of Appeals last year ruled that the trial judge "fell short" in screening jurors for potential bias following pervasive news coverage of the bombing and ordered a new death-penalty phase trial.

The 1st Circuit stressed that even if he is not executed Tsarnaev would remain in prison the rest of his life. He is incarcerated at the "Supermax" federal prison in Florence, Colorado. The Justice Department launched its appeal during Republican former President Donald Trump's administration and continued it after Democrat Joe Biden took office even though Biden opposes the federal government's use of the death penalty.

Opposition to the death penalty, as shown in opinion polls, has increased in the United States, while its use has declined. Liberal-leaning Massachusetts is among the growing number of U. Polls in and found a majority of Boston voters favored a life sentence for Tsarnaev. This year's marathon is being run on Monday, two days before the Supreme Court's arguments. Even during his trial, victims disagreed about Tsarnaev's punishment.

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