Elizabeth Warren: No death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts on Thursday said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was convicted yesterday on 30 counts of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, should not be given the death penalty. "You know my heart goes out to the families here, but I don’t support the death penalty," she told CBS's This Morning. "I think that he should spend his life in jail, no possibility of parole. He should die in prison."
Warren, considered a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, has previously stated she personally opposes the death penalty, but she did not publicly oppose the Justice Department's decision to seek the death penalty in this case.
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