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Court overturns Boston Marathon bomber's death sentence

by Associated Press
| July 31, 2020 1:03 PM

A federal appeals court Friday threw out Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, saying the judge who oversaw the case did not adequately screen jurors for potential biases.

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