Washington, United States.
The Supreme Court of United States agreed on Monday to assess the possibility of restoring the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, One of the perpetrators of the attack of the marathon of Boston of 2013, in a case that may be key to the debate over this type of sentence in the country.
The highest country court announced that it will consider an appeal by the Department of US Justice on a decision of an appeals court, which last July overturned the death sentence that had been imposed on Tsarnaev for his role in this attack, which kill three people and injure more than 260.
It was the government of the former president Donald Trump qü by appealing to the Supreme Court in October with the aim of restoring the death penalty per Tsarnaev, within a campaign to revitalize its use sentence type, Declining a United States.
The new American president, Joe Biden, he promised abolish the death penalty for crimes prosecuted at the federal level and encourage the states for them to do the same, but their team has not withdrawn the request to the Supremeor from the previous Executive in the case of Tsarnaev.
If the Supreme Court decides that the capital punishment to Tsarnaev, the Government of Biden will remain in an awkward position as it is under great pressure from progressive activists to end this kind of sentence at the federal level.
The Supreme Court is not expected to hold a hearing on this case until its next session, which begins in October, and will not rule on the matter probably until May or June 2022.
Tsarnaev was sentenced to 20 life sentences in addition to the death penalty, So he will remain in prison for life no matter what the Supreme Court.
The decision of the Department of Justice under the mandate of Trump to resume executions at the federal level after a pause of nearly two decades generated controversy in the United States United States, Where the general trend in recent years had been to resort less and less to this sentence and postpone the time of execute those already issued.
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This caused 2020 to have more executions at the federal level than in all states together, something unprecedented in country history.
In addition, the ten executions completed at the federal level last year made this period the most federal sentences of death penalty they have been carried out in 125 years, since 1896, according to data from the PDIC.
Twenty of the 50 states have already abolished the death penalty on their territory, while another 12 have been without a perform an execution, segons the Information Center on the Death penalty (DPIC, for the acronym in English). EFE