Tsarnaev was convicted of all 30 charges against him, including conspiracy and use of a weapon of mass destruction and the killing of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Officer Sean Collier during the getaway attempt. Prosecutors said the brothers carried out the attack to punish the U.S. for wars in Muslim countries.

Retiring Sen. Joe Manchin (I-WV) condemned President Joe Biden for his decision to commute dozens of death sentences, including the men who pleaded guilty to kidnapping and killing a West Virginia college student.

Joe Biden believes the death penalty "must stop" at the federal level, except for those guilty of terrorism and mass murder motivated by hate, the White House said.

With just weeks left in office, US President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 federal death row inmates - potentially thwarting President-elect Donald Trump's plans to expand federal executions during his upcoming administration.

W.Va., characterized President Biden's commutations of the sentences of two prisoners who had been on federal death row as "horribly misguided and insulting."

President Joe Biden's decision to commute the death penalty sentences of 37 inmates was met with fierce backlash on Thursday from outgoing Sen. Joe Manchin. Brandon Basham and Chadrick Fulks escaped from a Kentucky jail in 2002 and launched into a nearly three-week crime spree,