NEW YORK, December 23. /TASS/. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted of taking part in plotting the terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon, has become one of the three persons to whom the US president did not commute the death penalty on federal charges to life in prison, CNN reported.
Earlier, the White House press service reported that Biden commuted the sentence for 37 out of 40 people to life imprisonment without the possibility of release. CNN says that the head of the US administration did not commute the sentence of Tsarnaev, as well as Dylann Roof, found guilty of killing nine dark-skinned parishioners of a church in the city of Charleston in 2015, and Robert Bowers, convicted of killing 11 people in the Tree of Life synagogue of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) in 2018.
Twin blasts with an interval of 12 seconds rocked downtown Boston on April 15, 2013, when the traditional Boston Marathon was taking place. Three people were killed and more than 260 were injured. Several days later, police identified the suspected organizers as Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Tamerlan was killed in the police operation to detain him, while his brother was injured and arrested. In April 2015, a jury found him guilty on all 30 charges and sentenced him to death. In July 2020, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit overturned the death sentence; however, this March, the court authorized an investigation into possible jury bias in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's trial, sending the case back to the lower court.