Resources on the Federal Death Penalty and Boston Marathon Case

On January 30 U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced the gov­ern­ment would seek the death penal­ty in the fed­er­al pros­e­cu­tion of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. DPIC has a num­ber of resources about the fed­er­al death penal­ty, includ­ing a list of fed­er­al death row inmates with descrip­tions of their cas­es, infor­ma­tion about crimes eli­gi­ble for the fed­er­al death penal­ty, a break­down of out­comes in fed­er­al cap­i­tal cas­es, and stud­ies relat­ed to such issues as costs and racial dis­par­i­ties. We have also com­piled legal doc­u­ments relat­ed to the Tsarnaev case, includ­ing the recent notice of intent to seek the death penal­ty, the indict­ment, and ini­tial charg­ing doc­u­ment.

(Posted by DPIC, January 31, 2014). See Federal Death Penalty.