Dzhokhar Tsarnaev fera face à la peine de mort

La décision de Attorney General (Ministre de la justice) Eric H. Holder Jr a été annoncé aujourd'hui. Le plus jeune des frères Tsarnaev pourrait être condamné à mort à la suite de l'attentat du marathon de Boston.  Eric Holder a également présenté des arguments pour justifier ce recours.

 "“While I understand the public interest in this matter, we have rules that limit the release of information and the scope of public statements,” Ortiz said. “The process by which this decision was made is confidential, and I will not comment further about that process other than to say that it entailed a careful and detailed consideration of the particular facts and circumstances of this case.”

 If Tsarnaev is convicted, a second trial would take place to determine his sentence. In court papers filed today, prosecutors outlined their legal arguments to justify the death penalty. Among those arguments: That Martin Richard was merely 8 years old and was “particularly vulnerable due to youth,” that the attacks were “heinous, cruel and depraved,” that they were engineered to inspire other terrorists, and that they were committed in “betrayal of the United States.”

 “Dzhokhar Tsarnaev received asylum from the United States; obtained citizenship and enjoyed the freedoms of a United States citizen; and then betrayed his allegiance to the United States by killing and maiming people in the United States,” prosecutors wrote.

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