Boston Marathon bombing

One of the men responsible for the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing has reportedly sued the federal government for $250,000.

The U.S. Justice Department asked the nation’s highest court Tuesday to review the case of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, whose death sentence was thrown out over concerns with the jury selection process. In a petition, Justice Department lawyers called Tsarnaev’s case “one of the most important terrorism prosecutions in our nation’s history” and said the 1st U.S. Circuit...

The family of an MIT police officer killed in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings is pushing back against what they say is a lack of support for law enforcement.

The Justice Department will seek to reinstate a death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man who was convicted of carrying out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, Attorney General William Barr said Thursday. In an interview with The Associated Press, Barr said the Justice Department would appeal the court’s ruling last month that tossed Tsarnaev’s death sentence and ordered a...

After the initial verdict to sentence Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death was overturned, prosecutors are seeking to reestablish the punishment.

The Justice Department is asking the Supreme Court of the United States to review the decision to overturn Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence.

After the death sentence of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was overturned, Attorney General William Barr says the U.S. Justice Department will seek the same penalty again.

A federal appeals court has agreed to give prosecutors another month to decide their next step after the court tossed Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this week said prosecutors can have until Sept. 14 to file a petition asking the full court to rehear the case. The government’s petition was...

President Donald Trump sounded off Sunday on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling overturning Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. “Death penalty!” Trump tweeted on Sunday morning. “He killed and badly wounded many. Justice!” Trump expounded on his statement a bit more in a Facebook post, saying “Rarely has anybody deserved the death...

Victims of the Boston Marathon bombings tell NBC10 Boston they’re disappointed by the decision, and legal experts say it likely means another long and painful court battle is ahead.

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. A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a new penalty-phase trial on whether the 27-year-old Tsarnaev should be executed for the attack...

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence has been tossed out after a federal appeals court said the judge did not adequately screen jurors for potential biases.

In a stunning ruling, the three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday overturned the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. The federal appeals court also ordered a new penalty-phase trial on whether the 27-year-old Tsarnaev should be executed for the attack that killed three people and wounded more than 260…

A court has overturned the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzokhar Tsarnaev, ordering a new penalty-phase trial.

Despite social distancing, the Old South Church’s bells still rang at 2:49 p.m. to commemorate those lost during the Boston Marathon bombings.

One Boston Day will take place on April 15, the seventh anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings. But this year, the annual celebration will look different due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Since 2015, One Boston Day has been an opportunity to celebrate the strength of the Boston community that was demonstrated after the attack in 2013, according to the…

The Boston Marathon bomber’s lawyers urged a federal court to overturn their client’s death sentence, arguing Thursday that intense media coverage and signs of juror bias led to an unfair trial. The three-judge panel didn’t render a decision after hearing from both sides for about an hour each.  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was convicted of all 30 charges against him,...

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s attorneys say he did not get a fair trial for the deadly Boston Marathon bombing and subsequent shootout.

Attorneys for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will appear before a federal judge to plead for a new trial and to have their client’s death sentence overturned.

Court weighs whether Boston Marathon bomber got a fair trial