Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: at least a decade of appeals to follow death sentence- Reprieve. - Jail a kind of death
Despite
the dramatic news from court, the Boston Marathon bomber’s fate will
take years to reach its conclusion: only three of 340 prisoners
sentenced to federal death row have been executed in the last 50 years
The federal death chamber at the US penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, has seen only three executions in the last 50 years.
Photograph: Rich Miller/AP
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has become the 62nd inmate on federal death row after he was sentenced to death on Friday for his part in the Boston Marathon bombings.
He will now join the rarified group of men and women (two are female)
awaiting execution on federal death row; at 21 he will be the youngest.
But despite the dramatic news from the Boston courtroom on Friday,
Tsarnaev’s fate will take years to reach its conclusion. Many of his new
federal death row peers have been sitting waiting for the appeals
process to work its way out for more than 20 years.
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