Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov Plead Not Guilty
Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov have pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice. The two college friends of surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are accused of disposing of evidence from his dorm room. Ref. USAToday
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder today authorized the government to seek the death penalty against Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev.
"After consideration of the relevant facts, the applicable regulations and the submissions made by the defendant's counsel, I have determined that the United States will seek the death penalty in this matter. The nature of the conduct at issue and the resultant harm compel this decision," Holder said in a statement. Ref. CNN
The trial of defendant Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will begin Nov. 3, 2014. The 20-year-old Tsarnaev is charged with carrying out a terrorist attack that killed three people and injured more than 260 in Boston last April. Ref. USAToday
Why Do Progressives Want the Boston Bomber to Live?
By Dennis Prager
Federal prosecutors have announced they are seeking the death penalty for Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He and his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, murdered three people and wounded more than 260. In addition, they shot a Boston police officer to death.
In keeping with what the citizens of progressive Massachusetts consider to be progressive values, the great majority of them oppose the death penalty for Tsarnaev. Only one out of three citizens supports his execution.
The Boston Globe reported that, when asked to explain the ACLU's opposition to executing Tsarnaev, "Carol Rose, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, said that the union opposes the death penalty "because it is discriminatory and arbitrary and inherently violates the constitutional ban against cruel and unusual punishment."" Ref. Source 5
A Florida prosecutor has cleared an FBI agent in the fatal shooting of Chechen man Ibragim Todashev as he was being questioned about a Boston Marathon bombing suspect, officials tell The Washington Post and Associated Press. Ref. USAToday
Boston Marathon bombing suspect's friend convicted of impeding investigation
Azamat Tazhayakov was found guilty Monday of obstruction of justice and conspiracy. He was a college friend of 2013 Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Ref. USAToday
Friend of suspect in Boston bombings pleads guilty
Dias Kadyrbayev, friend of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, has pleaded guilty to impeding the Boston Marathon bombing investigation. Tsarnaev is accused in the attack in 2013 that left three people dead and more than 250 injured. Prosecutors said that after Kadyrbayev and another friend, Azamat Tazhayakov, determined that Tsarnaev was a suspect in the bombings, they removed items from Tsarnaev's dorm room. Ref. USAToday