Death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber unlikely

Published February 28, 2014 5:00am ET



If I were a betting woman, I’d plunk down $10 right now and bet that suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will die in prison and not in an execution chamber.

Yes, Attorney General Eric Holder recently announced the feds will seek the death penalty for Tsarnaev, but chances are the 19-year-old may never face the possibility of being put to death by the U.S. government.

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