A court ruled to vacate the Boston Marathon bomber's death penalty

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• The death penalty of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been vacated, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday. 
• The panel of the 1st US Circuit Court of Appeal said the judge "fell short" in screening jurors for potential bias and ordered a retrial over the sentence for Tsarnaev's crimes, Reuters reported.
• In the retrial, a new set of jurors can again decide whether Tsarnaev — who alongside his brother killed three people and injured more than 250 — should be sentenced to death. 
• US Circuit Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson promised that Tsarnaev will remain in federal prison for the rest of his life in the event he doesn't get resentenced to death.
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A federal appeals court ruled to vacate the death penalty of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Friday, but said he will remain in prison for the rest of his life.

The panel of the 1st US Circuit Court of Appeal said the judge "fell short" in screening jurors for potential bias and failed to exclude jurors who had already concluded that Tsarnaev was guilty after seeing news coverage of the bombings and their aftermath, according to Reuters.

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