Djokhar Tsanaev: éviter la peine de mort

La sélection du jury pourrait s'échelonner sur plusieurs semaines et tout indique que la défense concentrera ses efforts à éviter la peine de mort pour le plus jeune des deux frères qui auraient orchestré l'attentat du marathon de Boston. Tsarnaev dispose d'une bonne équipe d'avocat et Judy Clarke est déjà parvenue à éviter la peine de mort plusieurs de ses clients.

 "Tsarnaev’s attorneys might lay the groundwork for an explanation involving mental health, said Christopher Dearborn, a professor at Boston’s Suffolk University Law School. That could include any persecution his family could have suffered as ethnic minorities in Kyrgyzstan, where the brothers spent most of their lives before moving to the United States with their parents and two sisters.

“I think the real value in that may be to start to try to generate even a little bit of empathy around this and humanize the kid a little bit, hopefully enough to save a life,” Dearborn said.

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