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Why Is the Boston Marathon Bomber Alive?

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

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

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?

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A.R. HOFFMAN
A.R. HOFFMAN

Mr. Hoffman is an associate editor of the Sun, where he covers politics and culture. He holds a PhD from Harvard and a law degree from Stanford.

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