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Read the federal appeals court ruling vacating Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, bloody and disheveled with the red dot of a sniper's rifle laser sight on his head, emerges from a boat at the time of his capture by law enforcement authorities in Watertown, Mass on April 19, 2013.Sean Murphy

A federal appeals court on Friday tossed the death penalty handed down to Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and ordered a new penalty phase trial.

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