Boston Marathon bombing victims split on death penalty in U.S. Supreme Court case

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Jurors in 2015 found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boston-bombings-trial/tsarnaev-convicted-in-boston-bombing-may-face-death-sentence-idUSKBN0MZ0ZI20150408 of all 30 counts he faced and later determined he deserved execution for a bomb he planted that killed Lu and Richard.
47% : Opposition to the death penalty, as shown in opinion polls, has increased in the United States, while its use has declined https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/facts-and-research/dpic-reports/dpic-year-end-reports/the-death-penalty-in-2020-year-end-report.
42% : Norden, 59, said her views favoring execution for Tsarnaev have not changed, asking: "If this doesn't warrant the death penalty, what does?"
40% : "I know a lot of people didn't him want to get the death penalty for their own reasons," said Norden, who sat through the three-month 2015 trial.
37% : Liberal-leaning Massachusetts is among the growing number of U.S. states that have abolished capital punishment in state courts.
29% : The Justice Department launched its appeal during Republican former President Donald Trump's administration and continued it after Democrat Joe Biden took office even though Biden opposes the federal government's use of the death penalty.
24% : Bill and Denise Richard, Martin's parents, in a 2015 open letter published in the Boston Globe newspaper urged prosecutors not to pursue the death penalty, saying it would prompt years of appeals and "prolong reliving the most painful day of our lives."

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