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Supreme Court looks set to reimpose the death penalty for the Boston Marathon bomber

The court's liberal justices appeared incredulous about the actions of the district court judge in the original proceedings, but the conservatives appeared unpersuaded.

The Supreme Court appeared to lean toward reinstating the death sentence imposed on the Boston Marathon bomber, though the court's liberal justices were incredulous about the actions of the district court judge in the original trial.

The judge in the original trial excluded evidence of the involvement of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's slain older brother, Tamerlan, in a

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