Supreme Court agrees to hear government’s appeal reinstate Boston Bomber’s death sentence

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear the Justice Department’s appeal to reinstate Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentences

The appeal filed under the Trump administration, which carried out the execution of 13 federal inmates in its final six months in office, challenged a lower court’s decision ordering a new trial over the sentence Tsarnaev should receive for the death penalty-eligible crimes for which he was convicted.

Tsarnaev, 27, and this brother Tamerlan set off two pressure-cooker bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon which killed three people and more than 260 people were wounded this terror attack took place in 2013, and in 2015 Tsarnaev received a death sentence.

Justice won’t hear the appeal until the fall, and it’s unclear how the new administration will approach Tsarnaev’s case.

The death sentence was made by the Obama administration, in which Biden serves as vice president.

Biden has pledged that he will put end to the federal death penalty.

In 2015 Tsarnaev,27, was convicted of 30 charges, including conspiracy and use of a weapon of mass destruction, in the 2013 terror attack.

The US Court  Appeals for the 1st Circuit threw out the death sentences last July, ruling that the judge sentence last July, ruling that the judge in Tsarnaev’s trial did not adequately screen jurors for potential biases following pervasive media coverage of the attack.