WASHINGTON: Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have asked a US court to rule out capital punishment for their client, after last month's botched execution of a US inmate.
In documents filed late Wednesday, Tsarnaev's legal team asked the judge to take the death penalty off the table in the federal capital murder case against Tsarnaev, accused in twin bombings that killed three people and injured 264 in April of last year. A fourth person, a police officer, was killed by the suspects during the pursuit by authorities.
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