The Supreme Court reimposes the death sentence for the Boston bomber

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : He argued that due to the special, irreversible nature of the death penalty, the Supreme Court's precedents allow great leeway at the sentencing phase.
42% : He did not contest his guilt but appealed his death sentences, arguing that the jury's imposition of the death penalty was tainted by the trial judge's refusal to allow him to present evidence that would show that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19 at the time of the bombing, was under the influence of his violent brother Tamerlan, seven years older.
41% : Although Massachusetts had abolished the death penalty, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted on 30 terrorism related charges and sentenced to death on six of them.
40% : The U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the convicted Boston Marathon bomber.
40% : Capital sentencings "are not evidentiary free-for-alls," he said, and here there is not "any way to confirm or verify the relevant facts, since all the parties involved were dead," including Tamerlan and his alleged accomplice, who was later killed in a shootout with law enforcement too.

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