Washington, United States.
The Supreme Court of U.S agreed on Monday to pre-evaluate the possibility of reinstating the death penalty Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the perpetrators of the attack of the marathon Boston the 2013, in a case that could be key to the debate about this kind of punishment in the country.
The country’s highest court has announced that it has an appeal from the ministry American Justice on a decision of an appeals court, which canceled the death penalty imposed last July Tsarnaev for his role in that attack, that killed three people and more than 260 injured.
It was the former president’s government Donald Trump qwho appealed to the Supreme Court in October with the aim of restoring the capital punishment in front of Tsarnaev, within a campaign to revive its use kind of sentence, decreasing in U.S.
The new American president, Joe Biden, Has promised abolition of the death penalty for crimes prosecuted and incentivized at the federal level state to do the same, but his team has the petition to the Most Highor the previous Executive in the case of Tsarnaev.
If the Supreme Court decides that it death penalty for Tsarnaev, the government of Biden You will be left in an awkward position as you are under great pressure from progressive activists to end this situation punishment at the federal level.
The Supreme Court is not expected to hold a hearing on this matter until its next hearing, which begins in October, and is not likely to rule on the matter until May or June 2022.
Tsarnaev was sentenced to 20 life sentences in addition to the capital punishment, so you will remain in prison for life no matter what High Council.
The decision of the Ministry of Justice under the mandate of Trump Resumption of executions at the federal level after nearly two decades of hiatus caused controversy in U.S, where the general trend of recent years had been to resort to less and less of that sense and to procrastinate execute the ones that have already been spent.
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That ensured that there would be in 2020 more executions at the federal level then in all states together, something unprecedented in the history of the country.
In addition, the ten executions completed at the federal level last year made that period the period with the most federal sentences of capital punishment they have been conducted in 125 years, since 1896, according to the DPIC data.
Twenty-two of the country’s 50 states have already abolished the death penalty in their territory, while another 12 have not for over 10 years. run a run, sAccording to the Information Center on Capital punishment (DPIC). EFE