WASHINGTON — President Biden announced Monday: truncated the text He is one of nearly all federal death row inmates, with the exception of three who were not pardoned.
Thirty-seven inmates originally sentenced to death will now receive life sentences without parole as a result of Biden’s actions. However, the three remaining death row inmates whose sentences have not changed are: Robert Bowers, convicted in the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting; Dylann Roof convicted of shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church. and Dzhokhar Tsarnaevconvicted in the Boston Marathon bombing.
Biden campaigned on abolishing the death penalty and the Justice Department. imposed a suspension Regarding federal sentences, prosecutors continued to seek the death penalty in some cases.
robert bowers
Mr. Bowers, 51 years old; received the death penalty in August 2023 after he passes away. Convicted on 63 federal charges About attacks in 2018 Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. Bowers shot and killed 11 worshipers and injured seven others in the worst anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history.
Bowers, a truck driver with a history of making anti-Semitic comments online, was armed with an AR-15 rifle and three handguns when he opened fire during Saturday morning’s church service. Federal prosecutors said Bowers turned the synagogue into a “killing ground,” and police said he told them “all Jews must die.”
The Justice Department said Bowers “meticulously planned” the attack based on his anti-Semitic beliefs.
dylan roof
jury Roof sentenced to death A mass shooting occurred in 2017. Mother Emmanuel AME Church He was executed in Charleston, South Carolina in June 2015, becoming the first person ordered executed by the federal government for a hate crime. Nine black parishioners were killed and three others injured in an attack that occurred during a Bible study.
Before launching his racially motivated assault, Roof posted a manifesto online that used racial slurs and expressed his belief that white people were superior to African Americans, prosecutors said. That’s what it means. They claimed Roof wanted to attack black worshipers to incite racial tensions.
The roof is Convicted on 33 charges Roof appealed his conviction in 2016, with his lawyers arguing that he was unfairly allowed to plead his case during the sentencing phase of the trial. But the federal appeals court upheld Roof’s conviction. And sentenced to death in 2021.
“Dylan Roof murdered African-Americans in their church, during Bible study and worship. They had welcomed him. He massacred them. “There were many of the same people who heard about the mass murder, not just the immediate victims at Emanuel Church,” a panel of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit said in their decision.
supreme court Rejected review The Fourth Circuit will issue a decision in 2022.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Tsarnaev was convicted of 30 charges for crimes committed during the bombing in the suburbs. boston marathon finish line The 2013 charges include three counts of using a weapon of mass destruction causing death.
Jurors recommended the death penalty in six of the 17 cases, and federal district courts imposed the death penalty.
The attack killed three people and injured dozens more. Tsarnaev’s role in the bombing is undisputed and acknowledged by his lawyer. Him and Tamerlan Tsarnaevdetonated two homemade explosives near the marathon finish line. But Tsarnaev’s lawyers argued that the mastermind behind the attack was Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and that the younger Mr. Tsarnaev, who was 19 at the time of the attack, acted under the influence of his older brother.
After the attack, the two brothers attempted to flee Massachusetts, starting a four-day manhunt that put Boston and the surrounding area on lockdown. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested by police after he was found hiding in a boat behind a house in Watertown, Massachusetts. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a gunfight with police while chasing his two brothers.
After appealing his conviction, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit supported almost everything In 2020, all but three of these capital punishments were annulled and new sentencing procedures were ordered.
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to reconsider the First Circuit’s decision, saying the new sentencing process would place a heavy burden on the victims of the 2013 bombings. Despite the president’s opposition to the death penalty, the Biden administration maintained its position in the case.
Supreme Court March 2022 reinstated the death sentencefinding that the Court of Appeals improperly overturned his capital punishment.
