The Supreme Court ruled on Friday to reinstate the death sentence for the Boston Marathon bomber.
The 6-3 decision overturned a federal appeal to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's initial sentence of capital punishment.
"Dzhokhar Tsarnaev committed heinous crimes," Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in the court's opinion.
"The Sixth Amendment nonetheless guaranteed him a fair trial before an impartial jury. He received one," Thomas said. "The judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit is reversed."
Tsarnaev was charged with assisting his brother in planting pressure-cooker bombs at the finish line of the April 2013 Boston Marathon. The bombs killed three people.
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