Andrew McCarthy: Court rejection of Boston bomber’s death sentence seems based on hostility to death penalty


Andrew McCarthy: Court rejection of Boston bomber’s death sentence seems based on hostility to death penalty



It appears that the ruling has at least as much to do with judicial hostility to capital punishment as to concerns about the due process implications of intense media coverage.

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