Dzhokhar Tsarnaev fled and was captured a day later, after being found hiding in a boat in the backyard of a house in Watertown, a suburb of Boston. A jury sentenced Tsarnaev to death by lethal injection in , but this was overturned last year by an appeals court. The court said the trial judge had failed to exclude jurors who had already concluded that Tsarnaev was guilty. While Mr Trump supported executions during his time in office, President Joe Biden has said he will seek to end the death penalty.
In its petition, Justice Department lawyers called Tsarnaev's case "one of the most important terrorism prosecutions in our nation's history". The Supreme Court very rarely hears cases it's asked to review. May 22, - An FBI agent shoots and kills Ibragim Todashev in Orlando, Florida, while questioning him about his relationship with Tamerlan Tsarnaev after cell phone records connect the two.
Todashev tells the agent that Tsarnaev participated in a triple homicide that was drug-related. The confrontation between the FBI agent and Todashev turns violent after Todashev lunges at the agent with a weapon, according to a law enforcement source.
July 10, - Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleads not guilty to 30 federal charges. August 13, - Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov plead not guilty to conspiracy to obstruct justice and obstructing justice with intent to impede authorities.
August 19, - The testimony of the trauma surgeon who treated Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is unsealed, revealing the extent of his wounds, including multiple gun shot wounds that pierced the base of his skull, mouth and vertebrae. Unsealed documents also reveal that Tsarnaev was not read his Miranda rights until three days after he was detained.
September 13, - Phillipos pleads not guilty to making false statements to federal officials, and Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov reenter their not guilty pleas. Tamerlan Tsarnaev's in-laws appear before a federal grand jury in Boston. Details of the four-hour session are not immediately released. October 21, - In a court document, prosecutors confirm that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was accused of participating in a triple homicide outside Boston. January 30, - A notice is filed with a federal court after US Attorney General Eric Holder says that federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
May 30, - Authorities arrest a friend of the Tsarnaev brothers, Khairullozhon Matanov and charge him with one count of destroying, altering, and falsifying records, documents and tangible objects in a federal investigation, specifically information on his computer. He is also charged with three counts of making materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statements in a federal terrorism investigation. He later pleads guilty to misleading investigators. August 21, - Kadyrbayev pleads guilty to obstructing justice.
As part of the plea agreement, a sentence of seven years will be recommended by the US attorney, and Kadyrbayev, a Kazakh national, has agreed to be deported after serving his sentence.
October 28, - Phillipos, a friend of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is convicted on two counts of lying to federal agents. January 5, - Tsarnaev's trial begins.
March 3, - Jury selection is completed. March 4, - Opening statements begin in Tsarnaev's case. Testimony lasts 15 days. Yet they and others affected by the attack that killed three people and wounded more disagree about whether convicted bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be executed - a question the U.
Supreme Court will consider on Wednesday when the justices hear the U. But for me, I wanted it. Borgard, who also attended the trial, is against executions of anyone.
The Supreme Court is set to hear the federal government's appeal of a lower court ruling overturning Tsarnaev's death sentence and requiring a new trial to determine whether he should get life in prison instead. Two ethnic Chechen brothers carried out one of the most shocking attacks on U. Tsarnaev, who is 28 now and was 19 at the time, and his older brother Tamerlan detonated two homemade pressure-cooker bombs at the marathon's finish line on April 15, After four days in hiding in the Boston area, the brothers tried to flee, killing Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev died in a gunbattle with police a few days after the April 15, , bombing. Dzhokar Tsarnaev is now behind bars at a high-security supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. Tsarnaev was convicted on 30 charges, including conspiracy and use of a weapon of mass destruction.
The 1st Circuit upheld all but a few of the convictions. Prosecutors told jurors that the men carried out the attack to punish the United States for its wars in Muslim countries. They also pointed to social media posts from two jurors suggesting they harbored strong opinions even before the trial started. But U.
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