Why Is the Boston Marathon Bomber Alive?

The courts have condemned him to death, but President Biden stands in the way.

 AP/FBI File
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted and sentenced to death for the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. AP/FBI File

Why is the Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, still alive exactly a decade after he and his brother Tamerlan executed the finish-line bombing that killed three and injured hundreds, and then killed a policeman?

A jury convicted Tsarnaev and sentenced him, and no less an authority than the Supreme Court has ruled that the death penalty is in order. The answer lies in the Biden’s administration’s moratorium on executions, which shields those on death row from the punishment they have merited. 

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