Opinion
The Justice Department must decide whether to appeal a court decision blocking a death sentence of the surviving Boston Marathon bomber. It should not.
Aug. 20, 2020
World & Nation
The jury in the Boston Marathon bombing trial completed its first day of deliberations Wednesday afternoon, seeking to find what the judge described as the “proper punishment” for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, after hearing prosecutors demand a death sentence for “killing innocents” and defense lawyers urge them “to choose life.”
May 13, 2015
To the editor: When the Times’ editorialists conclude their plea to the jury (and all Americans) that the conviction of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on all 30 counts for his participation in the massacre at the Boston Marathon should not result in his execution, they suggest that killing him would exhibit the mentality of the terrorist.
April 10, 2015
Two friends of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were sentenced Friday to terms ranging from three years to 42 months in prison for helping Tsarnaev and his older brother after the 2013 attack that killed three people and wounded more than 260.
June 5, 2015
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found guilty April 8, 2015, of all 30 charges against him.
April 18, 2013
To the editor: It is false to assume that solely because of the imposition of the death penalty, there will be lengthy appeals of this case — not because that lengthy process will not take place but because the same lengthy appeals would have followed even if convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had been given life without parole.
May 18, 2015
Books
During high school in Cambridge, “Dzhokhar had continued to make good grades and good friends and make everyone happy. ...
June 24, 2015
Jan. 6, 2015
On first blush, it seems remarkable: a jury in Massachusetts, a blue-state bastion that doesn’t allow the death penalty for state offenses, sentenced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to die for his role in the lethal Boston Marathon bombings.
May 15, 2015
Convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev must pay with his life for the suffering he unleashed at the race finish line two years ago, a federal jury decided Friday, delivering a major victory to the government in the biggest U.S. terrorism prosecution of the post-Sept. 11 era.