{O/C} The culprit of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing is due to face a death sentence after the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated it.
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In a 6-3 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court justices overturned the decision made by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should not be punished with a death sentence as it did not believe Tsarnaev was indoctrinated by his late brother.
The end now justifies the means.
Justice Clarence Thomas didn't mince words in accusing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the bomber of the Boston Marathon attack back in 2013, of heinous crimes. He said impartiality was ensured during his trial.
While those horrified over the ghastly incident can heave a sigh of relief, a moratorium on the fedearl death penalty to further sift through the evidence has been imposed.
President Biden said he was taken aback by the parade of events, which killed three and wounded hundreds of innocent people.
While the dissenting liberal justices did not cross swords with Justice Thomas over his analysis, the justices were instead divided on whether evidence concerning Dzhokhar's late brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, should have been permitted to be used.
Had Tsarnaev prevailed at the high court, the administration would have either had to decide whether to pursue a new death sentence or put Tsarnaev behind bars for the rest of his life.
It was not his guilt in the deaths of a Chinese Boston University graduate, a restaurant manager and an 8-year-old boy, but whether he should be executed that had been at issue.
They say time heals all wounds. But in this case, while the Supreme Court's decision is set to give the witnesses and victims a new lease on life, the bloody moment when the bomb went off has already made an indelible mark on their minds.
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