Abstract

The death penalty is once again in the spotlight in the United States, after Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 21-year-old Boston bomber, was sentenced to death last week. Tsarnaev helped plan and execute the bombings in 2013 with his older brother Tamerlan, who was later killed in a shootout with police. The bombing killed three people, including an eight-year-old boy. Some 264 people were injured, and more than a dozen people lost limbs.